Re: Sophie maintenance

On Wed, 5 May 2004, David Birnbaum wrote:

> For what it's worth, the folks at Sophos seem to actively support the

Perhaps that should say "actively appreciate"...they don't actually
support the software in any particular way.

> existence of Sophie and are happy to have it around.  They pointed me to
> it and suggested I use it instead of rolling my own (which I have, for
> the most part quite happily).
>
> As a paying member of the Sophos community for rights to their API and
> toolkit, I can certainly lend that sort of support.  As a perl-only
> developer (with limited time) I cannot do much on the Sophie coding
> support side though.
>
> David.
>
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>
> On Thu, 6 May 2004, Alain Fauconnet wrote:
>
> > 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_
> >
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