Re: FYI: 4.0 release status

[Rory Toma]

Works for me. I should have some time this week.

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 02:19, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
> With Martins and mine latest patch checkin I think we are finished¹
> with the feature part of the TODO list for the 4.0 release. The
> actions remaining before a 4.0 release are²:
> 
> 
> 1) Port and test on various platforms.
>    -----------------------------------
>    The major work left now is to port the code to the various
>    plattforms. This is Rory's domain since he has the hardware :) I
>    hope you, Rory, may test and port a FreeBSD version and other
>    versions if you have time? Since Martin and Christan have access to
>    Solaris I guess that you have already tested and will test for
>    Solaris. Unfortunately I cannot contribute with porting since I
>    only have access to Linux at the moment :-( But I will certainly
>    contribute with testing.
> 
>    Responsible: Rory, (Martin and Christian) (hauk)
> 
> 
> 2) Finalize documentation.
>    ------------------------------------------
>    Walk through (QA) the documentation files; monitrc, CHANGES.txt,
>    monit.pod, UPGRADE.txt and README and prepare for the release.
> 
>    Note; In the documentation I now stress the IF <statement> THEN
>    action style, and only use this style. Although IF and THEN are
>    noise keywords and statements could be written as <statement>
>    ACTION I think it is important to stress the IF .. THEN style for
>    writing statements because it is familiar and makes statements
>    easier to understand and better looking, besides it makes it easy
>    to categorizes a set of testing statements as if-tests.
> 
>    Responsible: hauk + all
> 
> 
> 3) Prepare and release
>    -------------------
>    QA everything, tag the release and notify the monit-general list,
>    freshmeat.net and address@hidden RPM and Solaris PKG should be
>    created after the release and uploaded to savannah.gnu.org.
> 
>    Responsible: hauk, QA, CVS tagging, monit.tar.gz and notification
>    Responsible: Christian, Solaris PKG ?
>    Responsible: Rory, RPM and upload to savannah?
>   
> 
> 3) Anything missing?
>    -----------------
>     
>    Responsible: All   
> 
> 
> Ps. It is fun to work with monit again and I think the upcomming 4.0
> release will be a very fine product indeed and with lots of fancy and
> useful features, and with many bugfixes and with a much improved code
> base. (It's not perfect yet, but we are absolutely heading in the
> right direction :)
> 
> 
> ¹ Did you add the uid/gid stuff you wanted Martin or does this remain?
> ² Everyone, please remember to do a "cvs update -d ." before you start
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