ipfilter(4) needs maintainer

[David Demelier]

2013/4/14 Gary Palmer <gpalmer at freebsd.org>:
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 09:48:33AM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
>> Is it possible to move ipfilter into a port?
>
> That may work short term, but the ENOMAINTAINER problem will quickly creep
> up again as kernel APIs change.  If the author has lost interest in
> maintaining the FreeBSD port of ipfilter then unless someone steps forward
> to carry on the work, I don't see much of a future for ipfilter in
> FreeBSD
>
> Do we honestly need three packet filters?
>

No, for me only one should be present. I completely understand that
some users still use IPFilter and IPFW but why providing three packet
filters?

The answer should be: use one and document only one. If at the
beginning we started documenting only one all users should have used
the only one present. Now we really need to remove the ancestral
ipfilter and tell people switching to pf(4).

Everything in life change, if we need to maintain all code from the
past we will have a lot of compat code that pollute the full source
tree and we will never improve the code just because of old bits

My $0.02,
Regards

--
Demelier David