Re: Is vexim under development?

My work on rewrite have stalled at the momnet. I will contribute if 
development/support/repository is on-line ;)



On 09.05.2010 20:50, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> 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
>
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