I’ve never been especially proactive in evangelizing swaks, but its usage number have grown to the point in the last 10 years that I think I probably am probably hurting users by not having more communication channels to receive and provide updates. So, here’s a quick breakdown of what channels exist right now, and where I want to go in the future
Current
- Website – http://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks
- Update list – There’s no UI for this, but emailing updates-swaks@jetmore.net and asking to be notified of new releases will get you on the notify list.
New
- This blog. This is my personal blog, but I am maintaining a swaks category at https://www.jetmore.org/john/blog/c/swaks/. This category has a dedicated RSS feed at https://www.jetmore.org/john/blog/c/swaks/feed/.
- Twitter – http://twitter.com/SwaksSMTP
- Google+ – https://plus.google.com/u/0/110270727761256449657
Future
- I don’t really have any desire to run a mailing list myself but there have been some requests for one (which I assume would be very, very low traffic).
- swaks.net – I own this domain, at some point in the future I think it makes sense for the swaks distribution to move to it.
- Trac – swaks’ “todo” list is not huge, and not especially hard to hold in my head, but I like the idea of Trac or something similar because of its ticket/commit cross reference and the timeline to help remember the history of the development. Not sold on this being worth the effort of maintaining yet.
If there’s some specific thing you’d like to see from swaks, whether it’s a communication channel or a feature/bug, please let me know in the comments or via email (proj-swaks@jetmore.net).