[Postfixadmin-devel] 2.3 beta.... and the future?

[David G. <da...@co...>]

Hi,

I've been busy merging patches recently, and I think we're at the
point of releasing 2.3beta ... and hopefully then 2.3. I'll probably
release 2.3beta (.debs and .tar.gz) tomorrow (Friday) assuming I get
time around my son's 1st birthday party etc. Then I'll probably wait a
week, and then release 2.3.


I'm fairly confident that all the MySQL upgrade issues have been fixed
(all due to character sets)... which was perhaps the biggest thing
holding back the next release. 


Future wise ... I'm personally interested in merging in Amavis stuff
(see postvisadmin.sf.net ... which shares similarities at the DB
level, but not much at the code level; I've emailed the author and
he appears happy for a merge to take place).

Wiza (IRC) appears to be busy converting the code base to use the Zend 
framework and Doctrine. Hopefully this will make the project more
buzzword compliant, and also secure - and I can always hope - others
will join in it's development. Additionally I can hope that it'll lead
to development of an XMLRPC interface for e.g. vacations/password
changing/forwarding etc as done by the squirrelmail and roundcube
plugins.

Anyway, my initial thoughts are, if I get to merge Amavis stuff - this
will be after 2.3 is released. Hopefully it'll warrant a 3.0 release. 

Depending on timing, Wiza's codebase refactoring will probably form
e.g. 4.0. I don't know if it'll be possible to do an incremental merge
- which I'd prefer (who hands out SVN access?)

I've no idea how long the Amavis or ZF/Doctrine stuff will take... I
suspect the ZF/Doctrine change (if it finishes) will be very invasive
and probably cause plenty of new bugs. Amavis support should be
relatively easy and give us a nice new feature.

Feedback/Bug Reports/Criticism/Patches/Comments welcome...

David.
-- 
David Goodwin 

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