On Feb 27, 2007, at 7:30 PM, Jeremy Kister wrote:
On 2/27/2007 6:45 PM, Amitai Schlair wrote:
Does anyone agree, disagree, want to pitch in?
I don't see the benefit of taking people away from qmail.org and
qmailwiki.org.
Either site can and does list patches from a plethora of hosts,
including freshmeat and sourceforge. What does
"awebsitededicatedtojustqmailpatches.tld" buy a qmail user besides one
more place to look ?
Russ has historically been fairly inclusive with qmail.org, which has
historically been useful. When it first started, I imagine, a high
percentage of admins needed to acquaint themselves with a high
percentage of the ideas therein. Now it's a clearinghouse: if
someone's done it with qmail, qmail.org probably knows about it.
qmailwiki.org looks like it starts where qmail.org leaves off, and
obviously it's a wiki so anyone can pitch in. Seems sensible. All the
attendant problems of wikis apply, though. What's "Qmail-original"
and "Qmail Engineered", for example? The latter looks like an ad. It
doesn't look like there are enough eyes on this wiki to keep it well
run, though I'd be happy to be wrong.
And of course there's netqmail, which is a minimal set of patches --
and rightly so, because the target audience is "most everyone who
uses qmail." Thank goodness the people responsible are, in fact,
responsible. :-)
All of the above efforts are useful in different ways and ought to
exist. There's still room in the middle, though, for an organized,
structured list of "best" patches for each feature not found in
qmail. netqmail isn't going to include a whole lot more than it
already does, and the other two aren't particularly structured (in
the "structured data" sense), so it's hard to do anything clever or
automated on top of them.
AIUI, this is where the current effort comes in.
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