Hey there all, I am one of the people who has maintainer access to OpenDKIM and OpenDMARC. I use both regularly, but I’m also a novice as a C-coder. (Sysadmin, not developer). As mentioned in another thread, I don’t have access to the web hosting stuff or the list management stuff, though I’m tempted to just put up a temp site on AWS and ask the person who DOES have access to put in an HTTP redirect for both of those.
This is not my day job. My day job is in DNS operations, and it can be insanely busy, but also has lulls. I’ve also had a family situation that derails me at times. Without breaking confidences or saying too much, brains suck sometimes. (If you know, you know). ===== Anyway, Here’s a list of the things I’m trying to do, soonish: 1) Get the current “develop” branch of OpenDKIM cut into a release branch that includes recent enough SSL that it works on recent version, works with a modern autoconf, and works with the key types people are presently using. 2) Get some of the critical patches that are being used in some of the mainline OSes into base. THIS IS HARD. People jump in and say “Wait, I use GNUTLS, so I need that too!”. People say “Wait, this ancient solaris box I have in the corner running mail still uses openSSL 0.9.6, don’t break it on me!”. People complain about the lack of progress which honestly, doesn’t help. I know. This is also hard because there’s been a history of community patches breaking things on some other OS, or causing vague stability issues. 3) Get testing infrastructure spun up (on AWS or local VMware or somewhre that I can spin up for more OSes). Running unit tests on Slackware (via something like Jenkins, or manually) is not as simple as it sounds. As an example, someone posts a vague bug that says “this breaks for me on slackware 15”. Well, to respond to that, I need to replicate the problem on a Slackware 15 box. Slackware is NOT a friendly OS to just install and get running”. Same for OpenBSD. Same for Arch Linux. Same for Alpine Linux. Same for….etc. Each OS is a special snowflake with regard to how to get a BASE system able to configure a network stack and services without the system installing everything from X to Cups, maybe some firewall rules so we’re not running an open-to-the-world thing, install enough packages to build and keep up to date, and get cron running. I don’t think this project is unsalvageable, and I feel like forking it would do more harm than good. I want something better out the door, too. I may re-post this to mailop, but if you’re the kind of person that feels able to help with some of this, I’ll get (pending boss permission) a new mailing list spun up on dayjob’s existing infra that we can use to get going TODAY. Please contact me privately. _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org
