On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 06:06:50PM -0800, Dan Mahoney <d...@prime.gushi.org> wrote:
> (Speaking with my Trusted Domain Project hat on). > > Yes, we'll take help. > > I have commit access to all the Github repos, and am trying to push > out a new release of OpenDKIM. I've been meaning to do this for > months, but life and family stuff has been getting in the way. > > Here are the things I'd really like to focus on: > > * Making it work with a more current autoconf (we already did this for > OpenDMARC) > * Making it build cleanly with modern openSSLs. There's a new pull request yesterday that does that. > * Making it support the latest dkim key types (the version you can > build from "devel" already does this.) > * Defining a set of "what the current state of OSes we test this thing > are". > > What I don't have the access to fix is our mailing lists, but I'm > trying to get that (or at least get a list of the members and fork > them off). Yeah, I tried lists.opendkim.org today and it's not there. > Rather than drag this thread on *far* too long, I'd strongly suggest > starting this discussion elsewhere, and this mailing list may not be > the place. > > The chicken-and-egg problem is that there are a bunch of linuxes that > I don't normally use that someone always insists are important. A lot > of the submitted patches are "works for me" but break things on other > platforms. And there's a bunch of stuff that, honestly, just needs to > be ripped the hell out (like the GnuTLS support). It sounds like automated testing for PRs is needed. But github actions doesn't support very many operating systems. > If people want to get together on some chat platform and bang things > out, I'd love to work with anyone who can. Sure. I can probably be useful. I was about to create a fork and (blindly) apply lots of the existing pull requests, but I'd prefer to contribute to a more sane effort. :-) > -Dan cheers, raf > > On Dec 27, 2022, at 16:59, Peter <pe...@pajamian.dhs.org> wrote: > > > > On 28/12/22 12:12, raf wrote: > >> Actually, it's been nearly five years since the last > >> commit. But dead is a strong word. I expect there's > >> still a lot of people using it. And there are 21 pull > >> requests. I've emailed the trusted domain project to > >> ask if it's dead, and if they'd accept help. If not, a > >> fork might be a good idea. > > > > Hopefully something comes of this. Opendkim is indeed highly used > > throughout the email community in both individual and commercial > > landscapes. It deserves to be well maintained. > > > > > > Peter
