Is vexim under development?

Rimas Kudelis <[email protected]> Sun, 09 May 2010 21:50:52 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exim.vexim.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello list!

I'm wondering if anybody is actually doing any development/bugfixes for 
vexim now. I've noticed a few bugs that I'm going to fix sooner or 
later, and I've already added a few small convenience features to it 
(such as UTF-8 support), and I would be willing to provide my patches if 
there was a place to provide them to. Sadly, it seems that CVS 
repository mentioned in the Download page no longer permits anonymous 
access, so I can't even check if the bugs I see have already been fixed 
upstream or not.

By looking at recent archives of this list, I discovered Exim4U, which 
certainly needs more visibility on Vexim homepage, especially if it's 
seen as an official successor. However, Exim4U seems to be a little 
bigger project, and I'm kinda reluctant to go upgrade into it right 
away, because (a) I don't think I need webmail integration (I run it 
separately and I prefer Roundcube to Horde), and (b) Exim4U doesn't seem 
to favor Debian-style configuration, so I would need to convert it 
manually. Also, I wonder how different Exim4U and VExim actually are, 
especially in terms of legacy source code and stuff I talked about in 
the previous paragraph.

I also saw that someone was willing to rewrite vexim fully back in 
January. I wonder if this idea was ever realized? If not, read on.

All in all, I think if we want at least some development to occur, the 
best path would be to:
1) set up an official SCM again (importing old SVN stuff into it, if 
possible) and update the link to it on the Download page.
2) update other dead links on the Vexim website and/or move it elsewhere
3) set up a bug tracker again
4) any full rewrite should obviously be done in a separate branch.

Since vexim is a relatively small community, I think it would probably 
be the best and most stable to host all that in a farm such as 
launchpad.net, sourceforge.net, github.com or similar. The 
infrastructure that these farms provide would allow the project to live 
on whilst requiring just a small amount of human resources.

What do you all think?

Best regards,
Rimas Kudelis