I definitely agree with James.  Expend a bit of effort now to get a current
release out, along with a simple plan of what's to come (if even an
announcement of a documentation project!).  I can start a plan for a
documentation effort - would do a getting started / tutorial guide first.

Seems that this is the minimal amount of work required to get some very
substantial momentum going on the project.

Also, we are currently building a Document/Content Management System on top
of Slide - calling it Project Ginsu for now (although have seen some other
things with that name).  Eventually, we would be happy to contribute as a
reference CMS implementation that uses Slide.   



-----Original Message-----
From: James Higginbotham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 9:38 AM
To: Slide Users Mailing List
Subject: RE: Match+Gas = Slide status (was: newbie question about slide
future)


Remy and Jeremy,

> To do a release, we need a release manager to 
> propose/build/upload the 
> release(s). I was the RM for Slide 1.0.x, but I don't have 
> time to work 
> on Slide right now.
> 
> So since you apparently want to volunteer. However, you'll need to 
> become a committer first to be able to do something. So 
> you'll need to 
> submit stuff and prove you really want to be involved.
> 
> Remy

What about this: Jeremy - how about you getting the latest CVS and
ensuring that all tests pass. Assuming that the testsuite is an
indication of codebase sanity, then this should help us determine if the
current CVS tips are stable enough for a release. If they aren't, get
them running 100% and submit any patches. Remy - once Jeremy (et. al.)
gets the testsuite passing, can you authorize him or someone else as a
commiter and get them to do a release? This simple act of getting a new
release may be just a simple task, but I believe it will help generate
some renewed interest in the product, especially if its announced to
javalobby, theserverside, javachannel, et. al. This may bring more folks
here, more hands to assist in any new features, docs, etc. and take some
of the load off the original commiters who are being hammered right now
with other things. 

Thoughts?

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