ANNOUNCE: Amavis project handed over to new project leaders

[Mark Martinec]

Greetings all the patient attendees of this ML and users of Amavis,

I'll skip my apologies for being unresponsive for the past two years,
there's not enough room in this mail message :) My interests,
duties and priorities have shifted, and amavisd was running smoothly
at our site (still is), so there was less pressure on me actively
maintaining it, and not enough time to keep an eye on the mailing
list.

There have been suggestions and offerings to move Amavis to some
public repository. So far I have been evading them, but now I
received an offer I cannot refuse: Patrick Ben Koetter has offered
to move the project to such platform and take the lead (at least
initially) on reviving the project and coordinating it. I know Ben
personally, he is one of the two authors of The Book of Postfix,
and uses Amavis in his professional life too, so I think the
project will be in good hands.

I'm wrapping a couple of minor changes that have accumulated
since the release 2.11.0, and produce a minor patch release 2.11.1
(to be announced in my next mail).

For the sake of preserving historical continuity from very early
versions of amavis: the shell scripted one (see Wikipedia on
Amavis), to amavis-perl, then amavis-0.3, my early patch releases
and lastly as amavisd-new, I have collected all these versions
in a historically correct timeline, and we agreed with Patrick
that this can represent the initial Amavis git repository.

I'm leaving the realization of this repository and the choice of
hosting (gitlab.com) to his capable hands (and his colleagues).
Details to be announced later.

Regards
Mark

[Ralph Seichter]

Post by Mark Martinec
Greetings all the patient attendees of this ML and users of Amavis

Ah, the man himself. ;-) Thank you for reacting to my inquiry. I can
understand that priorities can shift, and I want to personally thank
you for all the work you put into amavisd-new until today.

Post by Mark Martinec
I'm wrapping a couple of minor changes that have accumulated since
the release 2.11.0, and produce a minor patch release 2.11.1

Thanks. https://amavis.org/release-notes.txt makes no mention of a fix
for the DKIM signing bug, so I am guessing that's one of the issues to
be addressed in the future?

-Ralph

[Imre Rad]

* I was testing this with 2.11.0 - went back to 2.10.1 and the expected

*>* behaviour was restored ( mail from !MYNETS is not being DKIM signed).*

Post by Mark Martinec
Greetings all the patient attendees of this ML and users of Amavis

Ah, the man himself. ;-) Thank you for reacting to my inquiry. I can
understand that priorities can shift, and I want to personally thank
you for all the work you put into amavisd-new until today.

Post by Mark Martinec
I'm wrapping a couple of minor changes that have accumulated since
the release 2.11.0, and produce a minor patch release 2.11.1

Thanks. https://amavis.org/release-notes.txt makes no mention of a fix
for the DKIM signing bug, so I am guessing that's one of the issues to
be addressed in the future?
-Ralph

[Ralph Seichter]

Is this the bug you're talking about? [...]

See https://gitlab.com/amavis/amavis/issues/6 and the Gentoo bug report
I linked there.

-Ralph

[Tom Sommer]

Post by Mark Martinec
I'll skip my apologies for being unresponsive for the past two years,
there's not enough room in this mail message :) My interests,
duties and priorities have shifted, and amavisd was running smoothly
at our site (still is), so there was less pressure on me actively
maintaining it, and not enough time to keep an eye on the mailing
list.

Thank you for all the impressive and detailed work; I'm sure you know
how big an impact this project has made around the world.

Post by Mark Martinec
There have been suggestions and offerings to move Amavis to some
public repository. So far I have been evading them, but now I
received an offer I cannot refuse: Patrick Ben Koetter has offered
to move the project to such platform and take the lead (at least
initially) on reviving the project and coordinating it. I know Ben
personally, he is one of the two authors of The Book of Postfix,
and uses Amavis in his professional life too, so I think the
project will be in good hands.

This is the right move to ensure Amavis continues to see use, growth and
contribution - I look forward to seeing this gitlab project :)

---
Tom

[Jakob Curdes]

Mark, I would like to use the moment to thank you for years of work on this project which has
evolved into an important part of mail handling for many of us.
I am glad a solution has been found that shows a future for this software.

Regards and have luck with your new interests,
duties and priorities.... Jakob

[Dave McGuire]

Post by Jakob Curdes
Mark, I would like to use the moment to thank you for years of work on
this project which has evolved into an important part of mail handling
for many of us.
I am glad a solution has been found that shows a future for this software.
Regards and have luck with your new interests,
duties and priorities.... Jakob

Seconded. I've run this software at several sites. It has made, and
continues to make, a big difference. Thank you Mark.

-Dave

[Benedict White]

Many thanks for all the hard work Marc, as well as this announcement.

Kind Regards,

Benedict White


-----Original Message-----
From: amavis-users [mailto:amavis-users-bounces+benedict.white=cse-***@amavis.org] On Behalf Of Mark Martinec
Sent: 09 October 2018 18:46
To: amavis-***@amavis.org
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Amavis project handed over to new project leaders

Greetings all the patient attendees of this ML and users of Amavis,

I'll skip my apologies for being unresponsive for the past two years, there's not enough room in this mail message :) My interests, duties and priorities have shifted, and amavisd was running smoothly at our site (still is), so there was less pressure on me actively maintaining it, and not enough time to keep an eye on the mailing list.

There have been suggestions and offerings to move Amavis to some public repository. So far I have been evading them, but now I received an offer I cannot refuse: Patrick Ben Koetter has offered to move the project to such platform and take the lead (at least
initially) on reviving the project and coordinating it. I know Ben personally, he is one of the two authors of The Book of Postfix, and uses Amavis in his professional life too, so I think the project will be in good hands.

I'm wrapping a couple of minor changes that have accumulated since the release 2.11.0, and produce a minor patch release 2.11.1 (to be announced in my next mail).

For the sake of preserving historical continuity from very early versions of amavis: the shell scripted one (see Wikipedia on Amavis), to amavis-perl, then amavis-0.3, my early patch releases and lastly as amavisd-new, I have collected all these versions in a historically correct timeline, and we agreed with Patrick that this can represent the initial Amavis git repository.

I'm leaving the realization of this repository and the choice of hosting (gitlab.com) to his capable hands (and his colleagues).
Details to be announced later.

Regards
Mark