[vPostMaster] Roadmap, Future Development, Supported OS's

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 12:55:04PM -0600, Samuel Anderson wrote:
> What about all the newer Fedoras?  I have to go to at least Fedora 7.  Will 
> a yum install/update work from F7?

You'll need to try it and see.  I just don't have time to run the testing
of Fedora 7 for you.  If you run into problems you either will need to
track down the problem and provide fixes to help us support it, or to
purchase support from us to fix it.

We primarily (in our hosting environment and with our clients) use
vPostMaster on enterprise distributions, CentOS 4 and 5 specifically.  So
these are the platforms that we have spent the most time on.  We've
provided base packaging files such that most popular distributions can
build packages, but if problems are run into with them they are something
you will need to look at and hopefully provide the fixes back to the
community to be able to use.

It, quite simply, has become too big a job for us to keep around dozens of
different build and test platforms.  So we're focusing just on the ones
we're regularly using.

I will be happy to support people who are interested in maintaining
distribution packages of vPostMaster, such as in Debian or Fedora.  All the
pieces are there, it just involves getting the package request pushed into
the upstream, and going through the review process.

> Along these same lines, I was just wondering what your plans were for the 
> community version of vPostMaster.  I haven't seen any updates since 1.42... 
> been a long time.  I really enjoy using this, so just wondering if you guys 
> were going to keep sustaining the project or if you had other priorities 
> now.

In general I consider 1.42 stable.  There are some other changes that are
in the development repository, but none of them I consider critical.
Particularly lately, I've had very little time to even think about
vPostMaster, but the vPostMaster we and our clients are running are working
well.  So, in general I'm happy with where it's at.

There are lots of ideas and even a proof of concept for a next-generation
vPostMaster.  While it's been running on the tummy.com mail server for over
a year, and working very well, I just haven't had the hundreds of hours it
will require to polish it to the point where it's something that could be
generally used.

That is the state of the vPostMaster union.

Thanks,
Sean
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