Hello, David. On Thursday, 29 June 2023 at 14:57, David Both wrote: > I have noticed that uw-imap is no longer in the Fedora repo and that the > last was F33. I like it far better than the other options because it is > the IMAP server that best "does one things and does it well." It also > requires the least amount of configuration and it just works so it also > meets the KISS test. > > I am willing to take it on to fix the problems that prevent it being > properly built and to ensure that it continues to be available for > future Fedora releases. > > I can take the F33 RPM, and a couple libs from F33, install them on F38 > and it works very well. So I know that much. Hopefully it will be as > simple as getting it to build and packaging it. Fedora packaging and runtime environment have evolved significantly since F33, but I wouldn't expect getting it to build on modern Fedora to be too difficult. Most issues will probably come from GCC being more strict. You should make it follow system crypto policy, too. > My objectives are in sequence: > > 1. Fork uw-imap and give it a new name. I would keep the current > "provides" as uw-mail for compatibility. You can also contact the original authors and ask if you can take over maintenance. :) > 2. Get it to build and install along with xinetd which is still > required for it. > > 3. Migrate it to systemd as quickly as possible. 3a. Port to OpenSSL 3 as quickly as possible. > 4. Learn a lot! > > 5. Don't change anything else unless absolutely necessary. That means no > new "features." > > 6. Fix any newly encountered bugs. > > 7. Build a small team to keep it going in the future. Sounds like a great plan. Good luck! [...] > I am looking at the github repo, but is it the best/most recent? I will > try to figure out how to take that over and will go from there. There's a repo on GitHub with the latest sources and Fedora's patches applied on top: https://github.com/uw-imap/imap . Are you referring to this one? It looks like the official website was last available between Oct 28th, 2019 and Dec 22nd, 2019. This is the last functional capture at archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20191028114408/http://www.washington.edu/imap/ Reaching out to maintainers in other distros might be worthwile, too. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://fedoraproject.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
