[vpopmail-devel] New vpopmail release or maintainership?

[Rolf E. B. <da...@us...>]

Greetings,

the vpopmail development seems to have halted years ago. As someone who still 
actually uses it this is a bit unfortunate. It seems everyone else has lost 
interest, including inter7. Even the mailing list given as contact for 
vpopmail just bounces.

For context: I'm also the maintainer of the vpopmail package in Gentoo. I'm 
also one of the folks behind notqmail (https://notqmail.org) and hack on my  
own SMTP engine for a while (only a little over 2 decades or so, which can be 
seen at https://opensource.sf-tec.de/Qsmtp/).

I have written quite some patches over the years, mostly to fix compilation 
issues on newer systems. A while ago I published all those patches on GitHub:

  https://github.com/DerDakon/vpopmail/commits/Gentoo

Please note that the older ones are only committed by me and are partly Gentoo 
specific. As a first step I would to get something like the "official" git 
history of the project. I have checked in my script that created the 
repository for review. If you can tell me any of the missing bits, e.g. the 
missing email or Rick Widmer, I would be happy to redo the repo before moving 
it into some more official position. In that process I would also properly set 
the author of the older patches to "Larry the Git Cow" (the Gentoo bot) as I 
can't see the original author anymore.

I feel that collecting more and more patches does not make sense, so I would 
like to go and cut a 5.4.34 release from it once it is somehow official.

So, how to do this? I could take over the maintainership and just do it, but I 
think sf.net is pretty dead, and so is Subversion. I would like to move the 
whole thing to GitHub, either in it's own organization or inside the notqmail 
org. Any opinions on that? Or I could do a fork and give it any other name.

Looking into the history of the converted repository I must confess that I 
don't get a clear picture of what was the idea of the 5.5 branch. There was 
some work on password strength checking, some bugfixes and some more stuff. 
Was there something specific on the agenda?

Greetings,

Eike