Re: [Ispworks-users] ISP-Works Developement

[Philon <ph...@ph...>]

Hallo Martin!

> There is only this list and the only developer on this is me. ISPWorks 
> was
> originally a project, that i created for my own needs. After having 
> used it for
> a couple of years with constantly development on and off and people 
> asking, I
> devided to release it under the GPL. I'm allways open for 
> feature-requests, but
> if you look at the TODO, it is loaded with stuff, that i'm working on 
> at the
> moment. Beyond me, a friend of mine is developing a API for a complete 
> new, more
> customizable look of the whole thing, since webdesign not is my thing.

I was wondering where I could spend my free time. Being workless isn't 
that nice. As I wasn't playing around with ISPworks I started to look 
through the code. As I'm pretty new to PHP, it is some work to get 
through the way things are done. Anyhow I would love to help where I 
can.

> Currently the main platform that ISPWorks is being developed against 
> is Debian
> Woody and that is postfix 1.x. I might include support for other ways 
> of doing
> things together with postfix 2.x at some point, but that is not the 
> primary
> issue right now, since there are lots of other things that i'm working 
> on
> (spam-filter, full maildrop filter editor, auto create of maildirs for 
> maildrop,
> a more secure web module with support for round robin uid's etc., a 
> rework of
> the way products are handled, mysql module and most important the 
> complete
> documentation, etc.)

With a MySQL backend and the services being aviable for nearly every 
kind of unix, ISPworks already is pretty portable. I suggest, the best 
thing with options would be staying most compatible.

> You are however welcome to send me (or on this mailinglist) 
> suggestions, how you
> setup/resolved things or intend to resolve things. I'm open to look 
> into that
> and see what we can do about it. I've had great discussions with some 
> of the
> people using ISPWorks on how to do things better and more secure 
> (especially
> Chris and Rene to mention there).

In the moment I'm for interface changes. But as I said, I'm new to PHP 
and without an existing docu it's not that easy to find out what 
function does what. Some thing for example would be that aliases don't 
have a counter in the lower left, like email or dns.


so far...
Philon