Re: Oort releases

["Matt Armstrong" <matt+dated+1007585210.bd118d@lickey.com>]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

> Having commented a few moments ago about pGnus releases, it occurs to
> me that Oort is essentially never being updated.  That is, Oort has
> been in progress for...well, I'm not sure, but it's well over a year,
> and we've only gotten up to 0.04 so far.  I'll grant that Lars' former
> habits of releasing more than once a day at times was perhaps
> excessive, but shouldn't we get a consistent tarball out to folks a
> bit more regularly than we have up to this point?  oGnus 0.04 has been
> in existence for months, and there really are people who would like to
> use the under-development branch without cutting the soles of their
> feet on the bleeding edge of daily-CVS' potential hosage.
>
> If Oort isn't actually killing anybody off this week, could we hand
> users a new version, and move on to 0.05?

Yes, I think Gnus is experiencing symptoms of "Lars got a life"
syndrome.  It is not as bad as you might think -- the ChangeLog still
shows lots of stuff going on, but the dude who makes releases sure
hasn't been making as many, and I'm not clear on future milestones,
etc.  ;-)

-- 
matt