INN maintenance and facing reality

[Russ Allbery]

Getting back to old mail now that I'm doing a cleanout of my mail and
loading everything into Trac.

Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:
> I wrote:

>> INN 2.5 probably should just be released as-is without all the other
>> things that I wanted to put in it.

> Would it be possible to wait a little for that, at least until some
> pending stuff has been stabilized?  For instance, correctly handling
> checkgroups (updating the active and the newsgroups files accordingly,
> if wanted) and allowing to specify the encoding of the newsgroups file,
> as we already discussed here.  It would need some new options to
> control.ctl, as well as a control.ctl.local file.

I opened ticket #4 for the encoding support.  I don't recall exactly why
you need control.ctl.local for this, but now we have a ticket where we can
track the details (once I get an account created for you).

If you think this should be done before 2.5, set a milestone of 2.5.0 for
it; that way, we'll know what's left before we do the release.

> The SSL implementation within nnrpd should also be looked at because it
> is broken with Thunderbird and it is very annoying.  See
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247226> for more details.
> Fortunately, there is a patch from Kachun Lee which could be applied but
> it is not a perfect solution.

Did this get solved?  I saw more mail go by about it, but I wasn't sure
about the current status.

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