From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40043 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Matt Armstrong" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Oort releases Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 13:46:47 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87wv15aqtk.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175655 31157 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:47:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:47:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 25637 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2001 20:49:12 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 5 Nov 2001 20:49:12 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 160qei-0007pH-00; Mon, 05 Nov 2001 14:47:40 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 05 Nov 2001 14:47:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA14291 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:47:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 25623 invoked by alias); 5 Nov 2001 20:47:08 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25618 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2001 20:47:08 -0000 Original-Received: from hank.lickey.com (64.81.100.235) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 Nov 2001 20:47:08 -0000 Original-Received: from squeaker.lickey.com (squeaker.lickey.com [192.168.100.10]) by hank.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC7EEE34 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:46:53 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF2CBD53 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:46:52 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9733DBD48; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:46:50 -0700 (MST) Original-To: Karl Kleinpaste Mail-Followup-To: karl@charcoal.com, ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Karl Kleinpaste's message of "Mon, 05 Nov 2001 15:07:14 -0500") Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.40/Python 1.5.2 (linux2) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20010714 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40043 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40043 Karl Kleinpaste 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