Title: spamassassin
This page tracks the project status, incubator-wise. For more general project status, look on the project website.
The SpamAssassin project graduated on 2004-06-23
SpamAssassin(tm) is a mail filter to identify spam.
Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify “spam”, also known as unsolicited commercial email.
| item | type | reference |
|---|---|---|
| Website | www | http://spamassassin.org/ |
| . | wiki | http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ |
| Mailing list | dev | spamassassin-dev@incubator.apache.org |
| . | cvs | spamassassin-cvs@incubator.apache.org |
| . | ppmc | spamassassin-ppmc@incubator.apache.org |
| . | users | spamassassin-users@incubator.apache.org |
| . | devel-br | spamassassin-devel-br@incubator.apache.org |
| . | devel-de | spamassassin-devel-de@incubator.apache.org |
| . | announce | spamassassin-announce@lists.sourceforge.net |
| . | . | (replacement spamassassin-announce exists on incubator, but will not be used until graduation) |
| Bug tracking | . | http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/ |
| Source code | SVN | incubator/spamassassin/ |
| Mentors | striker | Sander Striker |
| PPMC | felicity | Theo Van Dinter |
| . | jm | Justin Mason |
| . | quinlan | Daniel Quinlan |
| Committers | duncf | Duncan A. Findlay |
| . | felicity | Theo Van Dinter |
| . | jm | Justin Mason |
| . | mss | Malte Sebastian Stretz |
| . | parker | Michael Parker |
| . | quinlan | Daniel Quinlan |
| . | sidney | Sidney Markowitz |
| Extra | DNS | spamassassin.org |
* is the Incubation Status file up to date? (also post link) Yep -- http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/incubator/site/projects/s amassassin.cwiki * any legal, cross-project or personal issues that still need to be addressed? Copyright and distribution rights still remain to be verified by ASF. The trademark issue on the "SpamAssassin" name is still in progress. * what has been done for incubation since the last report? news.spamassassin.org has been shut down; it was becoming just a dumping-ground for third-party press releases, and Wiki pages were more appropriate. We're still waiting for trademark assignment to be taken care of. Also unsure if the ASF have vetted the CLA coverage of the current codebase. Mostly, the ball is in the ASF's court ;) Have received agreement from current domain holder of "spamassassin.org" that it will be transferred to the ASF. * plans and expectations for the next period? Hopefully we'll get the TM assignment taken care of, and the CLAs vetted; then we'll be ready (at least in terms of ASF procedures) to issue a 3.0.0 release of SpamAssassin as an ASF project. * any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly for you? * etc (your own thoughts on what is important would be helpful!)
* STATUS is up to date http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/incubator/site/projects/s amassassin.cwiki is now the canonical STATUS file and it is now up-to-date. The trunk copy points at it now. * 3.0.0 tree under development at ASF * 2.6x not under development at ASF
* is the STATUS file up to date? (also post link) http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/incubator/site/projects/s amassass in.cwiki Not quite -- the two 'Establish a list of active committers' items are not up to date. All active committers are now signed up, so that can be closed off. The second item is 'Add all active committers in the STATUS file.' However, I'm now confused. Which is the canonical STATUS file -- /incubator/spamassassin/trunk/STATUS, or /incubator/site/projects/spamassassin.cwiki? Some signs seem to be pointing to the latter... so, if the latter, some cut and paste from the former to the latter is then required (and note, I don't think I or anyone else on the SpamAssassin PPMC have write access to it). I'm kind of taking the approach that the latter is the incubation checklist, and the former is tracking our assets and people. That may be wrong though BTW the former is here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/spamassassin/trunk/STATUS Also, the two tasks under 'Verify distribution rights', should be complete. All code in the trunk is covered by CLAs, and the non-covered branches have README files noting their non-Apache status and presence for historical purposes only. However, perhaps this may need to be verified by the ASF before the task can be marked as complete, I'm not sure. * any legal, cross-project or personal issues that still need to be addressed? Copyright and distribution rights still remain to be verified, although all CLAs should now be in. -- so it's up to ASF legal now. The trademark issue on the "SpamAssassin" name is still in progress; as far as I know, NAI legal still need to provide some documentation to DW, Jim Jagielski et al. * what has been done for incubation since the last report? Lots! - - all committer accounts are set up; - - source code is now running from the Apache Incubator SVN repository; - - all of the developer-oriented mailing lists are now at the Incubator - although some user-oriented lists are still external, to avoid user confusion; - - all code has been vetted for CLA coverage, and removed or clean-roomed if a CLA could not be provided, and this is now awaiting verification by the ASF; - - and all major code or rules files in SVN are tagged with the ASL 1.1. - - The Wiki has been moved to wiki.apache.org. * plans and expectations for the next period? We need to transition more infrastructure, including our main website, Wiki and Bugzilla. Bugzilla uses some custom code to track CLAs, which would be nice to bring over. We also plan to finish up the legal situation, by getting the CLA coverage verified by the ASF, then the trademark. Also we have several cron scripts that are used to perform distributed rule QA, and a very large rsync server contain 2.7Gb of data, which will need to be migrated. What to do with these is still a topic of discussion, since they're *big* in terms of disk space usage, and there may not be room at the ASF infrastructure for this! There's also a spamtrap server which almost definitely should *not* come along -- it handles approx 1 Gbit of traffic per day (in spam reports) and would be a waste of ASF hardware and bandwidth, IMO. * any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly for you? A little more introductory doco would be nice; I hadn't heard of http://www.apache.org/dev/ until quite late in the process, and there were a few other issues where I had to hop around the apache.org website to figure out what things meant or what a given procedure was. Also, one thing I'm concerned about is how many aspects of our infrastructure will wind up with "incubator" in their URL or hostname; as a mature project, it'd be much easier to transition with the minimum of changes for the existing community, and this scoping of URLs and hostnames as in incubation means an additional change once we leave the incubator. As a result, it gives us a bit of an incentive to *not* set things up (lists, etc.) until we leave.
This is the first phase on incubation, needed to start the project at Apache.
Item assignment is shown by the Apache id. Completed tasks are shown by the completion date (YYYY-MM-dd).
| date | item |
|---|---|
| 2004-02-16 | Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist and check www.nameprotect.com to be sure that the name is not already trademarked for an existing software product. |
| DONE | If request from anywhere to become a stand-alone PMC, then assess the fit with the ASF, and create the lists and modules under the incubator address/module names if accepted. |
NOTE
There is a trademark
| date | item |
|---|---|
| 2003-12-20 | Identify all the Mentors for the incubation, by asking all that can be Mentors. |
| N/A | Subscribe all Mentors on the pmc and general lists. |
| N/A | Give all Mentors access to all incubator CVS modules. (to be done by PMC chair) |
| 2003-12-29 | Tell Mentors to track progress in the file ‘incubator/projects/spamassassin.cwiki’ |
| date | item |
|---|---|
| 2004-02-16 | Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to the ASF been received. It is only necessary to transfer rights for the package, the core code, and any new code produced by the project. |
| 2004-02-16 | Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright. |
| date | item |
|---|---|
| DONE | Check and make sure that for all code included with the distribution that is not under the Apache license, we have the right to combine with Apache-licensed code and redistribute. |
| DONE | Check and make sure that all source code distributed by the project is covered by one or more of the following approved licenses: Apache, BSD, Artistic, MIT/X, MIT/W3C, MPL 1.1, or something with essentially the same terms. |
| date | item |
|---|---|
| 2004-01-21 | Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors agreement. |
| 2004-01-21 | Add all active committers in the STATUS file. |
| date | item |
|---|---|
| 2003-12-23 | Ask root for the creation of committers' accounts on svn.apache.org. |
| 2004-01-07 | Ask infrastructure to create source repository modules and grant the committers karma. |
| 2003-12-25 | Ask infrastructure to set up and archive Mailing lists. |
| ....-..-.. | Decide about and then ask infrastructure to setup an issuetracking system (Bugzilla, Scarab, Jira). |
| ....-..-.. | Migrate the project to our infrastructure. |
NOTES
Discussion is underway to whether SA wants to use Jira, or wants to import their BZ database into the existing ASF installation.
The moving to the ASF infrastructure is partly delayed by the limited resources available in the ASF Infrastructure team (time). Also, this mature project has quite a lot of infrastructure to move. I suggest we don't let this be one of the points to keep SA in the Incubator; the intent to move to the ASF infrastructure is there.
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These action items have to be checked for during the whole incubation process.
These items are not to be signed as done during incubation, as they may change during incubation. They are to be looked into and described in the status reports and completed in the request for incubation signoff.
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Two trademarks are being assigned to the ASF:
SpamAssassin: http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/q?db=tm&sno=78148991
Powered by SpamAssassin: http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/q?db=tm&sno=78213077
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Things to check for before voting the project out.
If graduating to an existing PMC, has the PMC voted to accept it?
If graduating to a new PMC, has the board voted to accept it?