Re: Sophie maintenance

Hello Vanja & all,

> Vanja Hrustic wrote:
> 
> >I am wondering if anyone would be willing to take over Sophie, and
> >maintain it?
> >
> >I am extremely busy with other things, and I don't really use Sophie in
> >production, so I might not be able to react to bug reports and issues
> >properly (can't really test it on Solaris, for example).

Well, unless there's a new guru coming out of the shadow,  I  wouldn't
expect  a single person to have all the facilities (and abilities!) to
take  over the whole project. What about making it a collective effort
e.g. a Sourceforge project with CVS access to  source  code  and  all?

I  would  myself  be certainly able to help in some ways, fixing bugs,
providing minor improvements and such. Not sure I'd have the resources
for  any  major  development, and I don't have access to all supported
platforms either.

I'm  also concerned by the relations with Sophos: have you ever needed
to sign a NDA or any kind of formal stuff with them to have access  to
the necessary information to develop and maintain Sophie? Do you  have
privileged  contacts  with  folks  there  that it would be possible to
maintain if the project moves away from you?

Greets,
_Alain_