Greetings! I think this is a great idea and I hope it works out, not just for this package, but others too. I hope it may turn into a learning opportunity too.
Linda Mooney -------------- Original message -------------- From: Sam Golob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi Folks, > > Here at www.cbttape.org we've started a new process. Sometimes a > good software writer wants to write a package in an area where either: > > 1. He/she is not too familiar, but wants to learn the subject better. > > 2. He/she does not have the facility at his/her home installation, to > properly test a given product that he/she has written. An example would > be if the installation has a back-level release of something running, > and a version of the "user-written package" has to be tested at a later > release level of the system it's supposed to be running under. Like an > addon to SDF (Spool Browser for JES3) that is written for the latest > version of JES3, but their installation isn't running the latest version > of JES3. > > We are doing something to remedy these problems. We are putting a > preliminary version of such packages on the UPDATES page of > www.cbttape.org and ASKING ANYONE WHO IS ABLE, to please FIX IT, GET IT > TO WORK, and SEND IT BACK IN, so everybody will be able to properly use > the new package. We will always mark such packages as "ALPHA" > versions. For example: > > A new HTTP Server was written in Assembler, and promises to be a good > product eventually, but it needs fixing by an expert, because the author > can only go so far, in his own testing and debugging. File 795 on the > UPDATES page of www.cbttape.org needs fixing. PLEASE FIX THIS PACKAGE, > if you have the expertise and willingness to contribute a really useful > tool for the public good! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE. > > Please also write to me about this idea, of putting tools that need > some completion out on the Updates Page, and which are marked as being > incomplete. ALL THE OTHER STUFF on the Updates Page, IF NOT SO MARKED, > is considered by me to be "Production Grade Quality". Of course the CBT > disclaimers always apply! > > I'd like to hear feedback from you all. > > All the best of everything to everybody. > > Sincerely, Sam Golob > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
