Re: Shorewall maintenance

On 2/6/25 08:36, Jlem wrote:
> Dear Shorewall friends,
> I have been using Shorewall for 20 years.
> I find it very close to the simple description of network use cases, 
> ignoring the assembly-like language that can be seen on other products.
> Thus we have a very readable and therefore very maintainable language.
> In short, I find it has many advantages over others available on all 
> Linux platforms, mainly Debian.
> 
> So, reading that Tom stopped maintaining the project in 2020, I wonder 
> if his window of opportunity is closed (not for me) or is it due to a 
> lack of development resources?
> Many thanks to the team for carrying this wonderful tool for so long.
> 
> As I am more of an ops than a dev, without being a network expert, after 
> having tried coding with AIs like Chat, Claude, DeepSeek, maybe the 
> current development conditions are really ideal to allow the project to 
> be relaunched, mainly to bring it to NFTs, or to promote the resolution 
> of host names in the rules.
> Am I really overoptimistic?
> Thank you very much for your attention .
> Jlem
> 
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I think the bigger issue is that Shorewall is more of an iptables 
configuration tool. And iptables is now deprecated.

--Sam