<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">add me to the list...<div><br><div><div>On 13/03/2012, at 9:07 AM, Phil Whineray wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Everyone<br><br>I have been trying to contact Costa for quite a while to ask whether there<br>is any chance of seeing my IPv6 patches included. I've had no response<br>so at this point I am announcing my intention to fork FireHOL from mid<br>April and continue development and support in a new project.<br><br>Any help that anyone can provide will be gratefully received; I would like<br>to take this great piece of software and breathe new life into it but I won't<br>be able to do that alone. There's something for almost all abilities up for<br>grabs at the moment; please see the bottom for some ideas.<br><br>The goals of the forked project will stay close to the original:<br><br> - Allow experts and non-experts alike to produce secure firewalls<br> - Simple configuration should be simple<br> - Complex configuration should be possible (and as easy as possible)<br> - Keep to a minimal set of dependencies<br><br>In particular, going forwards:<br><br> - Eliminate distinctions between IPv4 and IPv6 where-ever possible<br> - Maintain compatibility with old FireHOL configurations<br><br>I will keep the current GPL 2 or later licensing unchanged.<br><br>Proposed Roadmap<br>================<br> - Project name decided<br><br> - Official infrastructure established<br> - Website<br> - Mailing list<br> - Bug tracker<br> - Git tree<br> - Release mechanism<br><br> - Release 1.0: Drop-in replacement for FireHOL<br> - Rename main script + provide wrapper or link to original name<br> - Copyrights + licensing notices applied to all files<br> - Documentation updated<br> - Take downstream patches (e.g. debian, red hat, arch, ...)<br> - Build installable packages; rpm, deb, tar.gz<br> - Verify seamless upgrades from FireHOL<br><br> - Release 1.1: IPv6 capability release<br> - Current FireHol + IPv6 patches maintained throughout 1.0 and 1.1 process<br> - Release will fixes any shortcomings<br> - e.g. Helpme to include IPv6 support<br> - Automated test architecture (prove v4 unaffected)<br><br> - Release 1.2: Start taking on other requests<br> - To be determined<br><br>How Can You Help?<br>=================<br>I'd welcome help in pretty much any area. There should be something for<br>anyone who has a bit of spare time and an interest in seeing the FireHOL<br>code-base move on: code, testing, packaging and documentation.<br><br>Please use this Github issue tracker for anything related to naming,<br>infrastructure etc. until there is a decision on official ones:<br><br> - <a href="https://github.com/philwhineray/firehol-fork/issues">https://github.com/philwhineray/firehol-fork/issues</a><br><br>Name<br>----<br>Current suggestions are:<br><br> - firehol6 / fireholv6<br> - barbican<br> - legiwall (i.e. legible firewall)<br><br>Please comment on the issue tracker if you would like to make a suggestion<br>or back an existing one.<br><br>We need to sort out an official name before too long since it affects<br>everything else. I'll announce a choice on Saturday 30th March.<br><br>Infrastructure<br>--------------<br>Once we've got the name in place we will switch to the official lines of<br>communication as the various bits are implemented.<br><br>The main requirements are these:<br><br> - Website<br> - Mailing list or forum<br> - Bug tracker<br><br>Tomas Jacik will be organising hosting and infrastructure staring around<br>mid-April. That will mark the offical start of the fork. Please feel free to<br>join the discussion in the issue tracker for now.<br><br>The really important bits of the website (i.e. services, language<br>description) are part of the project under GPL so we will be able to get<br>that going quite quickly. Help with content and translation will be<br>appreciated.<br><br>Release 1.0<br>-----------<br>We will host an official git repository under the main domain once it is<br>established.<br><br>Meantime this tree is intended to form the basis of the work for 1.0:<br><br> - <a href="git://github.com/philwhineray/firehol-fork.git">git://github.com/philwhineray/firehol-fork.git</a><br><br>The "cvs-mirror" branch will track FireHOL cvs; it is currently the latest<br>CVS version on Sourceforge.<br><br>The "master" branch will accumulate all the changes up to an official<br>1.0 release.<br><br>Any patches for inclusion will be collected in extra branches for review<br>as necessary. Please let me know if you are aware of any patches that should<br>make it in to 1.0.<br><br>I'm intending to do away with this repo once the official one's implemented,<br>and release 1.0 is finished. I'll establish a new repo with an appropriate<br>name for future development work.<br><br>The majority of the work is cleaning up the files to reflect the new<br>project and sort out documentation. Please use the Github issue tracker<br>for anything related to this repo:<br><br> - <a href="https://github.com/philwhineray/firehol-fork/issues">https://github.com/philwhineray/firehol-fork/issues</a><br><br>Release 1.1<br>-----------<br>Focus for now is on work for 1.0 which will not add IPv6. However, the main<br>reason for the fork is to get this functionality into a supported project.<br>For the impatient an updated FireHOL with all IPv6 patches can be found here:<br><br> - <a href="git://github.com/mikemol/fireholv6.git">git://github.com/mikemol/fireholv6.git</a><br><br>Once the 1.0 release is finalised anything missing from that repository<br>will be appled to the official tree as part of a 1.1 release. Please submit<br>any IPv6 related problems/patches to the Github issue tracker for the repo:<br><br> - <a href="https://github.com/mikemol/fireholv6/issues">https://github.com/mikemol/fireholv6/issues</a><br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Try before you buy = See our experts in action!<br>The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers<br>is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3,<br>Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now!<br><a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2">http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Firehol-support mailing list<br>Firehol-support@lists.sourceforge.net<br>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firehol-support<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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