[gentoo-server] SpamAssassin

[gentoo-server] SpamAssassin

[Wendall Cada]

I run several production servers on Hardened Gentoo, and have a concern.

The perl team has been awesome. I really love that packages are fairly
fresh compared to what is in cpan. However, there is one very important
package that's been ignored for far too long: SpamAssassin

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177144

Why has it been waiting for a mips keyword for almost two years? No
reply from mips. Pinging the bug has no effect, as seen with comments
#5-#8. Is the package abandoned? Is there some political issue with
Gentoo that keeps abandoned packages from being reassigned? I would love
to offer my help, but lately those offers have been flat rejected by
Gentoo devs. I guess my lips don't pucker well enough. I would like to
have this package dealt with. There are some important bug fixes in
newer releases.

Wendall

Re: [gentoo-server] SpamAssassin

[David]

Wendall Cada wrote:
> I run several production servers on Hardened Gentoo, and have a concern.
>
> The perl team has been awesome. I really love that packages are fairly
> fresh compared to what is in cpan. However, there is one very important
> package that's been ignored for far too long: SpamAssassin
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177144
>
> Why has it been waiting for a mips keyword for almost two years? No
> reply from mips. Pinging the bug has no effect, as seen with comments
> #5-#8. Is the package abandoned? Is there some political issue with
> Gentoo that keeps abandoned packages from being reassigned? I would love
> to offer my help, but lately those offers have been flat rejected by
> Gentoo devs. I guess my lips don't pucker well enough. I would like to
> have this package dealt with. There are some important bug fixes in
> newer releases.
>
> Wendall
>
>
>   
Did you try #gentoo-perl

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Re: [gentoo-server] SpamAssassin

[Kerin Millar]

2009/4/7 Wendall Cada <wendallc@83864.com>:
> I run several production servers on Hardened Gentoo, and have a concern.
>
> The perl team has been awesome. I really love that packages are fairly
> fresh compared to what is in cpan. However, there is one very important
> package that's been ignored for far too long: SpamAssassin
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177144
>
> Why has it been waiting for a mips keyword for almost two years? No
> reply from mips. Pinging the bug has no effect, as seen with comments
> #5-#8. Is the package abandoned? Is there some political issue with
> Gentoo that keeps abandoned packages from being reassigned? I would love
> to offer my help, but lately those offers have been flat rejected by
> Gentoo devs. I guess my lips don't pucker well enough. I would like to
> have this package dealt with. There are some important bug fixes in
> newer releases.

I can appreciate your frustation. At this point, maybe you should try
bringing it to the attention of the QA team (qa@gentoo.org)? Resolving
this situation would presumably be in line with their first stated
goal, which is to "keep the tree in a state which benefits all of our
users and developers alike".

Another tactic would be to befriend a developer who has a vested
interest in the continued fitness of the package (i.e. is known to be
a user) and to ask for their assistance in moving things forwards.
Some developers are rather more receptive to contributions from users
than others, and you may chance upon one.

Cheers,

--Kerin

Re: [gentoo-server] SpamAssassin

[Wendall Cada]

Thanks Kerin. Sorry to show my frustration. Just my feeling toward parts
of the Gentoo project lately. I will ping QA about this, and try to find
a perl dev who might look at the package.

This package is pretty stable. There are just some important bug fixes
in newer releases that would be nice to have stabilized.

Wendall

Kerin Millar wrote:
> 2009/4/7 Wendall Cada <wendallc@83864.com>:
>   
>> I run several production servers on Hardened Gentoo, and have a concern.
>>
>> The perl team has been awesome. I really love that packages are fairly
>> fresh compared to what is in cpan. However, there is one very important
>> package that's been ignored for far too long: SpamAssassin
>>
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177144
>>
>> Why has it been waiting for a mips keyword for almost two years? No
>> reply from mips. Pinging the bug has no effect, as seen with comments
>> #5-#8. Is the package abandoned? Is there some political issue with
>> Gentoo that keeps abandoned packages from being reassigned? I would love
>> to offer my help, but lately those offers have been flat rejected by
>> Gentoo devs. I guess my lips don't pucker well enough. I would like to
>> have this package dealt with. There are some important bug fixes in
>> newer releases.
>>     
>
> I can appreciate your frustation. At this point, maybe you should try
> bringing it to the attention of the QA team (qa@gentoo.org)? Resolving
> this situation would presumably be in line with their first stated
> goal, which is to "keep the tree in a state which benefits all of our
> users and developers alike".
>
> Another tactic would be to befriend a developer who has a vested
> interest in the continued fitness of the package (i.e. is known to be
> a user) and to ask for their assistance in moving things forwards.
> Some developers are rather more receptive to contributions from users
> than others, and you may chance upon one.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Kerin
>
>   

[gentoo-server] Re: SpamAssassin

[Torsten Veller]

* Wendall Cada <wendallc@83864.com>:
> Thanks Kerin. Sorry to show my frustration. Just my feeling toward parts
> of the Gentoo project lately. I will ping QA about this, and try to find
> a perl dev who might look at the package.

I asked for help half a year ago:
http://mid.gmane.org/20080911152631.TA8fc51.tv@veller.net

If you want to help, we can probably arrange something.
I currently don't know what needs to be done.

And then: bug 177144 is only important for mips users. If you don't use
a mips system it doesn't help making noise on this bug.

Thanks