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Re: [Bug-sysutils] Changes
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David Weinehall |
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Re: [Bug-sysutils] Changes |
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Wed, 19 May 2004 15:46:57 +0200 |
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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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