On 3/7/06, Hans Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 at 07:23 -0800, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > > I was in this situation once. I did a total refactor of a sf project > > (ImportScrubber) and the owner said, Great! You're the new maintainer! > > > > So be careful. :) > > Heh. Well I wouldn't really mind that, so long as it doesn't offend him > in the process.
That was my question -- are you OK with maintaining your new/refactored code base? Sounds like you are. I think you should fork and give an honorable mention to the guy who developed the original code. You will likely be more invested in your own code that works the way you want, and this is good for other OSS developers and users who want to consume a high-quality and well maintained lib. Postfix, Exim, etc. are all "rewrites" of sendmail. Why do we need another MTA? Because most would agree that sendmail falls short in a number of areas -- and fresh MTA implementations have been a good thing. There is no harm in others refactoring, or reimplementing, the same concept (maybe even using the sendmail codebase to begin with). I think the code you're working with falls into the "sendmail" or "XFree86" category. Just my opinion, -Bryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
