Sweet, I'd like it as well :) On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Martin Logan <[email protected]>wrote:
> Just a note to everyone on the list about the slowdown with Erlware. Eric > and I have realized it and are taking steps to get back to more serious > development and keep this moving forward. New jobs and writing our book has > taken a toll, the biggest problem however was just that we got into a > routine that did not involve the kind of committed effort that we used to > put in. As a result things have slowed down. > > We are tired of being slow and are moving to kick this all in the ass > again. We have already taken the following steps to get back into the fast > lane. We are now leaving work early each thursday and getting together for > a period of 5 hours to do nothing but development on Erlware. We are doing > the same each Sunday for even more hours. > > Call for participation. For those of you that are interested in helping > now is the time to get reenergized and pitch in. Our biggest problem areas > right now are: > > - Moving from one Erlang release to another R12B-3 to R12B-4 etc... Dave > Smith and Dave Peticolas are working on this problem and looking to automate > it. Help them if you are interested. I have just released a new faxien > version that allows searching just for particular Erlang versions to aid in > that process. > > - Portius and repository management. The portius service guards our repos, > it moves packages from our repo.erlware.org/writable repo to the pub repo > and in the process vets the package for quality and builds any available > documentation for inclusion on our website. This thing needs lots of > attention. I can't maintain it and Faxien both and so Portius is lagging > behind. If you want to do some really important and interesting Erlang > development here is a good place to start and own something really cool in > the process. > > - Unix admin help and general site and server management. We need to move > our server from one machine to another. This means moving repos, changing > DNS, setting up security, automating things for our website, and lots lots > more. If you have expertice here your help would be fantastic. > > Regardless of what happens one thing is happening and that is you should > see more out of Erlware moving forward. We have not forgotton about Erlware > at all. > > > Cheers, > Martin > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "erlware-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/erlware-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
