Steve wrote:
Be sure that everyone using DSPAM and capable of coding or doing other thins for DSPAM and some spare time will work on and for a forked DSPAM. Gentoo as community based Linux distro will sure be on board. I don't mean just me. All of the Gentoo users and maintainers.
I'd say this swings it if similar responses are found from other communities (or if other communities aren't sufficiently active with dspam to voice an opinion, as I suspect is the case with Debian at present). If the active developers and the distros follow the fork, it'll work. If not, it won't.
The first step has to be to incorporate patches and get into a "release often" position. Too many forks (imho) fail by starting out with grand ideas about the future direction of the project.
As far as I can tell (correct me if I'm wrong?) there is no way at present for the community to contribute to dspam releases, as the current owners are not doing anything with it so there's nowhere to send patches to that could be formally adopted? If so that's what forks are for. There's already enough for at least a new 3.8.x release, and it can't currently happen without a fork.
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