[Firehol-support] [Firehol-devs] Proposed fork [Was:(no subject)]

[Phil Whineray]

On 13 March 2012 13:09, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Klaus Kruse <kkruse.1987 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Am 13.03.2012 10:26, schrieb John Dalton:
>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:47 PM, SanskritFritz <sanskritfritz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Phil Whineray <phil.whineray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Everyone
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been trying to contact Costa for quite a while to ask whether there
>>>>> is any chance of seeing my IPv6 patches included. I've had no response
>>>>> so at this point I am announcing my intention to fork FireHOL from mid
>>>>> April and continue development and support in a new project.
>>>>
>>>> This is very good news. I'd hate to see such a great project die.
>>>> Thank you for doing this.
>>>
>>> Seconded! I've been a fan of FireHOL for years, and I'd love to see it
>>> continue to thrive. I'm not sure that I'll have much chance to help
>>> out, but I'll watch with interest and pitch in if I can.
>>
>> You have my sword as well! ;) Sure, if there is no response from the
>> maintainers, forking is the onliest solution. And having IPv6 support is
>> getting important.
>>
>> Pls keep us up to date and I'm sure, it'll work out.
>>
>> Regards
>> Klaus
>>
>      I too am game. I do not know how much I can do to help, but if
> you need someone to break things I'm your man!
>
>      Correct me if I am wrong, but hasn't development on firehol
> stopped on 2007? If so, it is high time to do something about it.

Thanks for your support, everyone, and apologies for failing to
include a  subject in the initial post!

Regards
Phil