Re: [Bug-sysutils] Changes

[David Weinehall]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:01:42AM -0400, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 04:48, David Weinehall wrote:
> > (Since we have no other mailing-list at the moment, I'm sending the
> >  status-updates here)
> 
> Most gnu projects just carry on discussion on bug- until the project
> gets quite large.

Ok.

> > I've added one more option to chsh and also checked in changed versions
> > of all manual-pages.
> 
> I need to hack on Savannah to get cvs commit messages going.  Doesn't
> look like I can do this before debconf, though.

Have a nice debconf!  I regret not being able to participate.  I'm going
next year, though.

> > Furthermore I've fixed a typo in the project-description on Savannah
> > (unless sysutils is meant to compliment rather than coreutils...)
> 
> Well..  Praise is always good, isn't it? =)

Sure...  As long as I'm the one that is praised =)

> > and changed status to Pre-Alpha.  I'm hoping that we should be able to
> > go Alpha in a month or so.
> 
> How do you usually define these?  When I do commercial software I tend
> to go with the following:
> 
> 1) Alpha - Feature incomplete
> 2) Beta - Feature complete, known bugs.
> 3) Gamma - We believe that this version, without changes, could be
> released.

Alpha - stay away unless you're a developer
Beta - stay away if you don't have backups
Release-version - an alternate spelling of Beta

> The last one is basically a brown bag catcher. =)  I usually skip it in
> Free Software projects.
> 
> > Unless someone has serious objections, I'm going to implement
> > add-shell and remove-shell this weekend, probably together with
> > write, wall, last, lastlog, faillog and possibly chpasswd.
> 
> None.  Thanks!
> 
> > BTW Jeff, what generated file I did I mistakenly check in?
> 
> COPYING.  When updating your autotools, do:

Bummer.

> autoreconf -f -i -s
> 
> And it should leave it as a symlink (and many of the others).  If you
> ever want to make a release tarball for handing to someone else, you can
> do
> 
> make release
> 
> Which will produce a sysutils-YYYYMMDD.tar.gz,
> 
> or
> 
> make dist
> 
> Which produces a tarball with the version number.

Ah.  Didn't know about make release.  I use make dist regularly, though.


Regards: David
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