At 3:37 Uhr -0700 30.04.2002, Ben Hines wrote: >At 10:25 AM +0200 4/30/02, Bernd Kuemmerlen wrote: >> >>As this has been discussed on this list last week, maybe someone with a >>little bit more insight on this issue might comment on this on >>macosxhints? >>Maybe a hint on how to update passwd before 0.4.1 is out? > > >Sigh.. I said we should have done a .4.0a just to fix this.
<sarcasm> Oops, sorry I completely missed you volunteered to do all the release work, cool. Go ahead and release 0.4.0a, please. I am glad you have enough time to cope with all the details involved etc. Thanks for volunteering, I am eager to see 0.4.0a! When can we expect you to announce the release? </sarcasm> Seriously, I am not a machine! And I have no time to make yet another release so soon. It's not a thing you "just do quickly", a full relase (even a "minor" one like this) takes a lot of time, it has to be done with great care and various factors have to be considered (like for example stable changed a lot since then. Which changes should be incorporated, which not?). No way that I make a new Fink release, even a "minor" one in the next few weeks. But I do realize that it's risky if we depend too much on me for making releases. Not only is it a problem should I leave Fink (very well possible), but it's also a problem now since it taxes me a lot. Less so compared to when Chrisp left us, since I sat down and wrote some docs (based on instructions Christoph mailed me, and based on my own findings) for the dist tools. Dunno if anybody ever read them, so maybe they are crap, but since I never got feedback on them, there's nothing I can do about it... So, I'd appreciate if some people would work together with me on the next release. I'd be willing to teach what I know about the release process. E.g. they could follow me doing the 0.4.1 release, and learn from this how to do it. Any such watcher could also try to augment the docs I wrote based on his learnings, filling its gaps. Note that you must be willing to be around for 1-2 days. FYI, you must distinguish between preparation of the release (includes testing all sorts of things), the actual release, and the bindist update, which are really three different things, the first of them taking the most resources. >I figured at least one more user would hose their install. And yep. > >I put a note on there saying how to get the new passwd from fink. Thanks for this. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
