Re: [Dspam-devel] improving dspam

[Tom H. <to...@wh...>]

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On 02-01-14 12:05, kael wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've seen in the few last emails on this list that there is no
> active development on dspam. That shouldn't be an issue if no new
> feature is planned.
> 
> But as Thomas Preud'homme (debian maintainer) explained, the
> problem is that bug fixes are not included upstream.
> 
> Do you know what could be done to change that state ? How can we
> help you ? (we=people using dspam and ready to help improving it)
> 
> Maybe a migration to github (or something like that) would ease the
>  process of reviewing patches ?
> 

Hi Mickael,

Thanks for your interest in making dspam better.

As stated in the thread with Thomas, the problem is not in way patches
can or could be reviewed. The manpower to do so is missing, and there
are some patches out there that fix problems in code that nobody is
(or should be) running, f.i. the css-file backend.

Applying the patch might solve the contributer's problem, but since
nobody in the DSPAM team is using the code in production, it's really
hard to test whether it actually works (or doesn't break anything else).

Moving to github could help, but in the end 80% of the github feature
set is already available on sourceforge. However, nobody outside the
dev team is commenting on bugs and/or reviewing patches there, which
doesn't get my hopes up for improvement on a different scm platform.

Tom
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