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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Time to move kmyfirewall?
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-04-10 22:08:03
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On Thursday 10 April 2003 17:57, Unai Garro Arrazola wrote:
> From what I see kmyfirewall is not being maintained too often lately. The
> last change was done more than a month ago. That's a shame, since I find it
> in really good state and seems to be the best tool around to set up
> iptables.
>
> The current state in the CVS is that it doesn't build but it's pretty
> simple to be fixed (KMyFirewallConfigDialog seems to have been renamed,
> when kmyfirewall.cpp  still looks for KMFirewallConfigDialog). I just got
> it built and it seems to work (tm).
>
> Now, as it's working better than other stuff around... wouldn't it be a
> good idea to test it and decide to move it to kdenetwork? This way, if the
> author agrees, some more maintainers could put their fingers on it to fix
> the rest of the bugs.
>
> I just don't want to loose a tool that is so good.

   Sorry, this is the wrong approach.  You need to show that it's maintained 
in order to move it to a release module.  The last thing we want is to have 
more code for the regular maintainers to fix bugs for.

-- 
George Staikos
 ...  Yes, my KDE talk at Real World Linux was cancelled on me.

 
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