[spambayes-dev] Spambayes and the Debian Project

[Tony Meyer]

(Apologies for my top posting as well).

I really have the same questions as Skip - what does "dead" mean, and what
is the consequence of whatever it is?

I use SpamBayes in a commercial product - its handling millions of messages
a day for us without any problems. I have been slack at pushing stuff back
upstream (it's always on my list, but never quite seems to make it to the
top. I'll try harder to fix that), but in general it is still just the core
SB package. It's certainly not unusable.

I am also using it on Debian, for what it's worth. However, I don't use the
Debian package (and wouldn't - it's pure Python so I would always use pip
rather than apt).

Cheers,
Tony

On Thursday, 2 July 2015, Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

> (apologies for the top post...)
>
> Thanks for the note, Hugo. I've cc'd spambayes-dev to my reply. Others
> there (assuming there still are others) might have some suggestions.
>
> SpamBayes has been dormant for quite some time, as you observed. I'm not
> sure what you mean by "dead" though. I'm not sure what's to be done about
> that. There are a few people who try to answer questions about it on the
> main list (spambayes at python.org
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','spambayes at python.org');>), but most of
> those questions come from users of the Windows version.
>
> I no longer use it myself anymore, except on the mail.python.org site.
> That instance hasn't been updated in quite awhile either.
>
> I'm not sure what an official "declare the end of the Spambayes project"
> would mean. Do you want to take it over? Assuming you've been maintaining
> it for Debian (I had no idea any Linux distros included it), I don't think
> it would be a big deal to get you added as an official maintainer.
>
> I'm not sure I've seen any bug reports, and like I said, I had no idea it
> was included in any Linux distributions. Do you have specific bugs to
> report?
>
> Skip Montanaro
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:07 AM, <hugo6390 at users.sf.net
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','hugo6390 at users.sf.net');>> wrote:
> > REPLY at http://sourceforge.net/u/hugo6390/profile/send_message
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > Hi Skip,
> >
> > I'm the Debian Maintainer of the spambayes package.
> >
> > Today, I decided to contact you in order to clarify the situation of the
> > spambayes project, which seems to be dead since 2007.
> >
> > Spambayes is still maintained in the Debian Project, but its maintenance
> > becomes harder and harder. Spambayes will even become unusable soon.
> That's
> > bad, because a lot of persons are still using this software. I'm not
> able to
> > fix spambayes alone, and I'll have to request its deletion if don't find
> a
> > solution.
> >
> > I want you to officially declare the end of the Spambayes project if it's
> > the case. Otherwise, could you, please, help me to fix spambayes' bugs ?
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Hugo
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
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