Probably whats needed to get this sucker beautiful is for folks to go thu the system and build some simple regression tests. I think (from memory) theres a bunch of tests in there.
Then if someone who knows about 'these things' feels up for it, they can on a regular basis grab the CVS, and build some tarballs, RPM balls and DEB balls. Basically I'm saying the project needs a release engineer, and I aint got the time for it :( -- Shayne O'Neill.. trådkrämare http://perth.indymedia.org "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." President Dwight D. Eisenhower April 16, 1953 On Thu, 28 Jul 2004, Shane McChesney wrote: > Yes, please, someone who can, cut a new stable version from CVS. > > In our "spare time", we're trying to move to Webware for all our web > sites, apps and online surveys, learning as we go. But we hit a wall > with the bug documented here: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01948.html > > I tried editing the source myself, but that didn't do it, and then > replaced the file with the one from CVS, but still no go. Clearly I'm > doing something wrong but it would be swell to not have to do it at > all... and I'm sure anyone trying Webware for the first time and trying > to set Webware to start up and shut down automatically with the OS is > going to run into this. Many will give up and move on. > > It's not good to make newbies jump through those hoops to get the tool > working the way it should... please, someone, test and cut a release to > help grow the community of users. > > Has anyone else noticed that list activity is down sharply starting last > September? See the counts at: > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=webware-discuss > > I want the project and community to grow, not shrink, and I think this > is a critical step. > > As someone else posted in this thread, we can't just demand a new > version, we need to step up ourselves. I think the guys who built this > are geniuses and clearly they're busy, as they should be. > > My staff and I are not gurus enough to code Webware, so I can only > contribute money to the process. I'll happily pay a $500 CAD bounty for > a 1.0 release in 2004, plus $250 CAD for a tested catch-up-to-CVS 0.8.x > or 0.9.x release in Q3 2004. > > I realize that's not much considering the work that may be involved, but > we're a small company. If anyone else can add to the pool, please do. > And let me know if there are other ways we can help this along. > > Shane McChesney > President, > Nooro Online Research > http://www.nooro.com > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop > FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! > Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Webware-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idG21&alloc_id040&op=click _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
