ipfilter(4) needs maintainer

[Rui Paulo]

On 2013/04/11, at 13:18, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Lack of maintainer in a near future would lead to bitrot due to changes
> in other areas of network stack, kernel APIs, etc. This already happens,
> many changes during 10.0-CURRENT cycle were only compile tested wrt
> ipfilter. If we fail to find maintainer, then a correct decision would be
> to remove ipfilter(4) from the base system before 10.0-RELEASE.

This has been discussed in the past. Every time someone came up and said "I'm still using ipfilter!" and the idea to remove it dies with it. 
I've been saying we should remove it for 4 years now. Not only it's outdated but it also doesn't not fit well in the FreeBSD roadmap. Then there's the question of maintainability. We gave the author a commit bit so that he could maintain it. That doesn't happen anymore and it sounds like he has since moved away from FreeBSD. I cannot find any reason to burden another FreeBSD developer with maintaining ipfilter.

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Rui Paulo