> > On Tuesday 14 April 2009 10:50:23 Justin Mason wrote: > >> > In general we've been a little light on dev effort lately.. perhaps we > >> > need to start rounding up for a 3.3.0 release. > >> > >> yeah, I think we should.
> > I agree it's about time to get 3.3.0 wrapped up. There is some useful new > > code there along with a couple of bug fixes, just sitting there. People > > are reluctant to use a non-released version, even though I'd say it is > > just as stable if not more than 3.2.5. > > > > As new problems are being reported faster than the old ones are being > > closed, it would be an illusion to wait for a majority of open tickets > > to be closed before a release. > I think we should split it again. the attempts to use a common subset of > rules has caused a *lot* of integration/dependency problems IMO. Here's > what I posted over a year ago(!): > > 'I would also like to get rid of the "rulesrc" external, and instead > just put its contents into each branch, separately. I don't think the > idea of sharing rules in this way between branches has worked out; in my > opinion it's caused more trouble than help (unanticipated dependencies, > complexity, SVN external = horrible anyway). Is anyone still attached to > this idea?' > > there were no replies, so that sounds good ;) Just needs to be done :) > > I would like to get a dkim tests operational again. A few testing public > > keys need to be published in a spamassassin.org zone (I know, Justin can > > push them to DNS, I just need to provide them). This is the main item I > > need to work on for 3.3. > > is there a bug for that? there probably should be... Bug 6100, now open. DKIM keys are now ready, test mail samples need to be prepared. > > Perhaps 3.3 is a good opportunity to make some Perl modules required > > or phased out. One example that comes to mind is making Time::HiRes > > a requirement - several SA modules are now jumping hoops and perform > > suboptimally when they need to deal with integer seconds. > > +1, that seems ok to me. a lot of distros bundle Time::HiRes now. Bug 6095, now resolved. > > Perhaps now the DomainKeys plugin could be removed, as its underlying > > module is no longer supported, and its functionality is covered by a > > DKIM plugin. > > +1 Bug 6098, now resolved. Mark
