something that is almost like a plan!

[Greg Troxel]

Greetings spamass-milter people:

Todd has graciously added me as a maintainer on savanannah.nongu.org.
While there are 5 people listed, the other three have not been heard
from in a while, so we will proceed and of course be happy to discuss
should they or really anyone want to reappear.

The word "Plan is a bit too strong, but the notion is minimal
maintenance and a release, to share lttle fixes and avoid the perception
of an abandoned project.  Steps of the almost-plan include:

1. Taking patches from Andy's repo, pkgsrc, FreeBSD ports, Debian, and
other places and applying them to the repo.

2. Understanding changes from previous release to now

3. Cleaning up the bug tracker:

There are many open bugs, and a lot of them date to many years before
0.4.0.  It's too hard to figure out if they still apply.  So I at least
will be heavy handed in closing bugs that are old.  As I said in this
NEWS item, please feel free to retest with 0.4.0 and reopen.  I don't
mean to be unkind about this -- there just aren't the cycles for some
mythical team of developers to try to reproduce them.  If you have an
open bug and still care, please get updated to 0.4.0, test and note that
in the comments.  

  https://savannah.nongnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9788

4. Release the accumulated clearly-ok changes.  This might be 0.4.1,
because it's not much, but TBD from step 2.

After that, perhaps repeat as necessary, perhaps fix compilation
warnings and/or sanitizer output.  Also discuss here and apply larger
changes.

Not on the near-term agenda is:

N1. Changing the VCS (because that's not the problem - but this is not
doctrine, just "no plan to do it soon"))

N2. Developing features (because there is no articulated need and it's hard)

N3. Rototilling the code (because that's not helpful and makes merging harder)

However if people hve improvements, please post your patches/etc. on the
list at least.  I don't mean to discourage that, just to be clear that I
(and I think Todd) have no plans to dig in and do lots of work.

Greg

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