Notes and Thoughts From The Desk of XBRM.

Hi Gang! Well, the first release is out the door. It's gonna take a few more of those before that becomes 2nd nature, so please bear with me. I'm sure I'm going to make some mistakes. :-) The hardest thing I found with doing the release was writing the CHANGES-Beta file. From now on I am going to try to keep it up to date as the patches go in. If anyone wants to include a CHANGES-Beta entry with their submitted patches, that would be fantastic. But please, don't feel obligated to do that. Other Points and Thoughts: ========================= Build Reports: ------------- I'm going to try to keep a database of the submitted build reports to see what kinds of invaluable information we can learn. Is there anyone who could set up a PostgreSQL database to do this for me? I'd like to encourage you all to send in a build report _every_ time you build XEmacs. The more data I can gather the better the quality of the information that can be gathered from that data. Patches: ------- I'll do my best to review as much as I can but if you read "Steve's TODO list" on -design you'll understand that I'm going to be pretty busy. Bug Reports: ----------- I want to keep on top of these. My goal here is to make sure that no bug reports get forgotten and that they are all dealt with. Release Frequency: ----------------- I've seen and heard promises of weekly or fortnightly releases from previous XBRM's. I'm not sure that I want to make such a promise. Besides, if I don't promise the world you won't be disappointed. :-) What I will say is that there will probably be more releases than we've had recently. Also, I want to co-ordinate with the "Big Players" so I can put out releases just prior and just after major changes. Our current "Big Players" would be: Ben Wing, Mike Sperber, Andy Piper, and Jerry James. If you guys could give me a quick heads up prior to big changes I'll do my best to get a release out before the change. And shortly afterwards so people can test it. Snapshot Releases: ----------------- Do we want them? I could probably set up a script to run from cron on my account on Tux to do a cvs up, then build a tarball each night. I won't do this unless people think it'd be a good idea. Feedback: -------- I want it! The good, the bad, and the ugly. If you think I'm doing a terrible job, tell me. I'm an Aussie and I guarantee that you can't offend me, so don't hold back. Of course, I'd like to hear good things too. :-) -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 10D5C9C5>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|