The future maintenance and development of Exim

About 6 months ago I said that I was planning to start a discussion
about the long-term future of Exim's maintenance and development. The
time has now come.

Some discussions have already happened among some of the interested
parties, and action is happening to set up a more formal Open Source
development project along the lines of many others. Meanwhile, I have
written a document about all of this, and invite people to read it and
give feedback if they want to. The document is available as a PDF file
at

  http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~ph10/doc002.pdf

We have set up a new mailing list for the discussion of Exim
development, and for the use of developers. It is [email protected], and
you can subscribe to it in the usual way. I have set the Reply-To: field
of this posting to [email protected] so that further discussion happens
there.

Please do NOT start a big discussion about this on exim-users. That list
is already busy enough with day-to-day discussions. It is never
appropriate to send a message to both lists.

I am still trying to catch up with all the fixes, tidies, and patches
that accumulated as a result of my being away. I want to get the next
release out before the end of the month. Therefore, I won't be spending
much time responding to the feedback just at the moment.

Philip

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
[email protected]      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

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