[Proftpd-devel] Future of project

[a***@hushmail.com]

All,

Is there any sort of roadmap or plan for ProFTP in the future?
There is such little activity on -devel and -users now that I am
wary of using it again for a publicly accessible service if
maintainers have moved on. Will they be able to produce bugfixes or
mitigation procedures and code for inevitable exploits?

Proftp has a great amount of features- but if this trend continues,
I feel like I would just end up trying to find another solution in
a years time when there are no updates or fixes.

Thanks.

[TJ Saunders]

Post by a***@hushmail.com
Is there any sort of roadmap or plan for ProFTP in the future?
There is such little activity on -devel and -users now that I am
wary of using it again for a publicly accessible service if
maintainers have moved on. Will they be able to produce bugfixes or
mitigation procedures and code for inevitable exploits?

Great questions.

First, the fault is mine: I've been more busy than usual, with job at
startup that has increasing responsibilities in the past year, and that
has meant less time for ProFTPD. That said, I have it mind to release
proftpd-1.3.6rc1 "real soon now" -- the one thing I want to finish is
basic support for the HOST command, which allows for name-based virtual
hosting.

Longer term, I agree that your concerns are valid. If there are folks
who're interested in helping out, development- and testing-wise, that
would help out the project.

I have no intention of moving away from ProFTPD or abandoning it; I am
still having quite a bit of fun working on its various modules and making
it better -- the only constraint is time.

TJ

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This truth - to prove, and make thine own:
"Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone."

-Matthew Arnold

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[Marian Marinov]

Post by TJ Saunders

Post by a***@hushmail.com
Is there any sort of roadmap or plan for ProFTP in the future?
There is such little activity on -devel and -users now that I am
wary of using it again for a publicly accessible service if
maintainers have moved on. Will they be able to produce bugfixes or
mitigation procedures and code for inevitable exploits?

Great questions.
First, the fault is mine: I've been more busy than usual, with job at
startup that has increasing responsibilities in the past year, and that
has meant less time for ProFTPD. That said, I have it mind to release
proftpd-1.3.6rc1 "real soon now" -- the one thing I want to finish is
basic support for the HOST command, which allows for name-based virtual
hosting.
Longer term, I agree that your concerns are valid. If there are folks
who're interested in helping out, development- and testing-wise, that
would help out the project.

I would like to help with the implementation of the HOST command, can you give me more details about how you want it?

Also testing is fun :)

Marian

Post by TJ Saunders
I have no intention of moving away from ProFTPD or abandoning it; I am
still having quite a bit of fun working on its various modules and making
it better -- the only constraint is time.
TJ
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone."
-Matthew Arnold
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