RE: [Middle-man-developers] status

[Riadh E. <ri...@me...>]

Hi Steve, Joshua and Alejandro,

> >> Is this project still alive ?
> >
> >The GPL'd code is still in CVS.  It has more bugs than squid, but it
> >currently reasonably OK.  What is needed is someone to adopt the code
> >and continue to refine it.

I worked on Middleman a year ago with Jason McLaughlin. In the beginning, I
developed a branch of middleman, Shweby (http://shweby.sourceforge.net) as
an ICAP client for the POESIA project (http://poesia.sourceforge.net). After
that I joined the Middlmean project and I redesigned the web interface and
the XML reader in C++ and that was a good introduction to C++ and object
oriented programming for me... It was a good experience for me in
open-source development. But when Jason desided to licence a proprietary
version (SafeSquid) based on Middleman, I gave him my permission because I
think that he deserves earning money from his project.

Now I am not active in Middleman, due to my full time job as software
engineer. But I can help you fixing bugs or understanding how Middleman
works...

> I downloaded it at one point and it crashed repeatedly. I know C but not
> C++ (I know they are very similar in some respects but it would be a
> whole new learning curve) and was not able to fix or find where it was
> crashing. Verion 1.x was a lot more stable.
>

Could you please tell me what version did you download? I need also a bug
report as explained in the documentation, with your config file, the log
file and a core dump. Then I can help you.

> Too bad to hear it went proprietary.

Sure. But the open source code still exists and can be carried on by other
developers... Every body is welcomed to contribute to the project.

Best regards,

Riadh.