Everyone, DISCLAMER: excuse the sappiness, it's the season As I sit here in my kitchen I look around and see all the Christmas letters that we've received from friends and family. I figured that one of my own might be appropriate. This has been a great year for the Bongo community, one for which I am grateful. We as a project were basically born this year. I looked over my hula logs (yes I still log there for no reason, yes I still have all the old logs, and yes they are still all available). According to http://www.feltonline.com/p_c/hula-logs/hula-2007-01-13.txt @ 12:48 (according to the logfile about line 303) we start to see "bongo = strdup(hula);". I remember the day fondly and I don't think I'll soon forget it. Starting there, many a late night was spent in utter enjoyment (go ahead, call me a geek) coding away. I had spent nights coding on Hula, however this was different. We were our own entity now and leading our own path. One which attracted debates at times, but one that, I think, has turned out very well. We are close to our latest milestone and only have a few rough edges before we can call ourselves a releasable product. I am excited for that day.
Now for a slight status update. I've been reading up on various RFCs that I didn't even know existed. Things like Delivery Status Notification RFCs used in SMTP. All this in prep for a rewrite of the SMTP daemon. I've got the outgoing code (smtpc) approximately half way there using the generic agent type system. I've had to make changes to the api a bit which required changes to other agents. Mostly simple changes that should have been there from the beginning and very simple in nature. Once I dig out of those RFCs I'll dive into the incoming code (smtpd). That one promises to be a little more complex. After that I'm not sure where I'll go. Perhaps back to the queue which could use a bit of help, or perhaps on the agent cert/configuration/startup code that Alex and I have chatted about in the past. The only other major outstanding issue is the Log4c issue that Lance and I were chatting about which I haven't yet gotten back to. I've gotten my test server at swedepop.com back up on the new maildir store. I haven't imported the old mailbox yet though. I hope to get that done fairly soon though it doesn't take long on the lists I'm on to get a ton of mail :) Also upcoming is new hardware. A friend of mine was cleaning house and sent me a couple of machines that should be pretty quick in installing. One is another Athlon 64 (my test/dev servers are VMs on an Athlon 64 XEN-32bit) and an old Athlon XP. I think one of them is destined to be OpenSolaris as I've really wanted to run Bongo through dtrace. The other I'm not sure about yet. If I can put OpenSolaris on the XP machine then perhaps I can run an Athlon in 64-bit mode in case we have any more odd 32/64 issues. If not perhaps I'll move the dev or test server over to it. That's it from my end of the Bongoverse. I hope that everyone has a wonderful holiday season and can spend it with family and friends. As I stated before, we have a great community with some great talent. pat (fatpelt) P.S. I'd like everyone to pause for a minute and look over my amazing patience throughout this note. I had to use the backspace far too often because *i actually found the shift key for once!!!* _______________________________________________ Bongo-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/bongo-users
