Re: Next day

2012-04-04 Thread Γεώργιος Δεδούσης
2012/4/5 HAKNER J FWIW I agree wholeheartedly with Wietse. We switched from sendmail to > Postfix 10 years ago. The code is very professional and very stable. > That is very unusual in today's open source world. > I agree too. I thank esp. Wietse and Timo for clearing this out. I won't take m

Re: Next day

2012-04-04 Thread HAKNER J
FWIW I agree wholeheartedly with Wietse. We switched from sendmail to Postfix 10 years ago. The code is very professional and very stable. That is very unusual in today's open source world.

Re: Next day

2012-04-04 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Daniele Nicolodi : > Having to track the changes to Postix from version to version and to > snapshot to snapshot, what I would do is to import each revision into a > revision control system and compare them with the tools offered by it. > If a central repository would be publicly available that t

Re: Next day

2012-04-04 Thread Daniele Nicolodi
Hello Wietse, thank you for your straightforward response. I was absolutely not advocating a change in the development model of Postfix, I have no reason to think that the current one as any problem. I was merely inquiring about the choice about the way the Postfix source code is distributed.

Re: Next day

2012-04-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 4.4.2012, at 10.31, Γεώργιος Δεδούσης wrote: > Wietse, please comment, don't you think that a public repo, showing each > source code change would be useful for Postfix? An issue reporting system too? Issue trackers seem to be kind of a waste of time for projects with few developers: a) You

Re: Next day

2012-04-04 Thread Wietse Venema
The Postfix development model is not like that of other open source projects with a steady stream of new commits, bugreports and bugfixes for those new commits. One of the original Postfix goals, which still stands today, is to provide software that isn't riddled with security and other holes (besi

Re: Next day

2012-04-04 Thread Γεώργιος Δεδούσης
2012/3/28 Daniele Nicolodi That's true, however, as far as I know, differently than most of other > open source software, there isn't a public source code repository for > the development of Postfix. Wieste, can you comment on this choice? > Did not come back for a while, hoping Wietse will repl

Re: Next day

2012-03-28 Thread Daniele Nicolodi
On 28/03/12 16:43, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: > Zitat von : > >> I use Postfix and is great. Thank you W! >> >> I send this becoz I got worried: If Wietse suddenly gets tired, retired etc >> what happens to Postfix? Any team/guys knowing Postfix well enough to keep >> dev on with

Re: Next day

2012-03-28 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von : I use Postfix and is great. Thank you W! I send this becoz I got worried: If Wietse suddenly gets tired, retired etc what happens to Postfix? Any team/guys knowing Postfix well enough to keep dev on with W's blessings? Well, that's the real power of Open Source.

Re: Next day

2012-03-28 Thread Γεώργιος Δεδούσης
2012/3/28 Nerijus Kislauskas > Or even will die one day? > > Well, we want W here for a LONG time, and we do wish MANY LONG HEALTHY YEARS, but no one is immortal... GD

Re: Next day

2012-03-28 Thread Nerijus Kislauskas
On 03/28/2012 02:15 PM, Γεώργιος Δεδούσης wrote: > If Wietse suddenly gets tired, retired Or even will die one day? -- Sincerely, Nerijus Kislauskas