Re: Getting MJ2 Running On Debian Sid

Excerpts from Jason L Tibbitts III's message of mi=C3=A9 ago 22 20:35:31 =
-0400 2012:
> I'm sure it's in use all over.  I mean, that's great.  I use it too.
>=20
> The problem isn't that nobody's using it.  The problem is that nobody's
> maintaining it.

Since I've recently taken over the main role of maintainership of the
postgresql.org's Mj2 server from Marc Fournier, I've been looking at the
code due to some things I've discovered -- and considering hacking it a
bit here and there.  (For instance, I noticed a memory leak and file
descriptor leak in mj_queuerun.  Also, one of the Readline libraries
causes mj_shell to die pretty quickly due to "insecure dependency" or
some such).

Perhaps the Digest::SHA1 -> Digest::SHA change would be the first of a
small list of changes I would consider doing and publishing.  Perhaps if
the majordomo2.org domain goes to Marc we could consider re-publishing
new releases there, under new maintainership.

If we're to do anything, maybe the first step would be to consider
migrating the CVS repo to git.

Seeing the number of followups in this thread, it seems clear that the
reason development is stalled is just that it works well enough -- not
that there is no interest.

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=C3=81lvaro Herrera <[email protected]>