Changeset 854

Timestamp:

06/21/10 17:48:30 (20 months ago)

Author:

elly

Message:

Update README to reflect reality.

File:

• branches/ithildin-1.1/README (modified) (1 diff)

branches/ithildin-1.1/README

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+WARNING WARNING WARNING
+This software is obsolete and should be considered essentially unmaintained. The
+codebase is old, overly complicated, and has some shortsighted fundamental
+design decisions which make portability to modern platforms a gigantic hassle.
+Ithildin lacks many features expected in modern irc server software, such as
+sane netsplit resolution, services support, and direction-checking; fixing these
+problems would require a large amount of work and a fairly substantial redesign.
+As such, ithildin will no longer be maintained by the irc.darkmyst.org dev team.
+
+I (elly on irc.darkmyst.org) am maintaining patches to it for the near future, but
+a migration to charybdis is planned. So far as we know, no other networks use
+Ithildin, so at that point this project will be dead. If you use ithildin or
+otherwise care about it, please visit irc.darkmyst.org #dev and we'll talk about
+the future. I am only dealing with bug fixes right now; new feature development
+is halted.
+
+tl;dr: If you are using Ithildin, stop. It's broken, and it won't be fixed.
+
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