Re: Oort releases

["Bill White" <billw@wolfram.com>]

On Mon Nov 05 2001 at 14:07, Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> said:

> 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?

Hear, hear!  And regular releases after that?  With Lars out of
touch/country/planet and the snapshots out of commission, it'd be nice
to have something easily available.  

I haven't seen a changelog in ages, but it seems from here that
ShengHuo ZHU, Simon Josefsson, Per Abrahamsen et. al. have sorta
replaced Lars in the daily gnus info loop; perhaps one of them could
make regular (weekly or so?) releases.

Cheers -

Bill
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Bill White
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