Re: 4.0 to go official soon?

From: Zeyd M. Ben-Halim <zmbenhal_at_majordomo.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 18:11:43 -0800

> Gary Johnson gjohnson_at_season.com wrote:
> +---- Zeyd M. Ben-Halim wrote:
> | I'm open to suggestions.
> +----
>
>Cool! I went through this tread and pulled out the desires, as
>that is usually the cause of suffering. In no particular order:
>
> * Official ncurses releases for OS distributions.
> * Not distributing unofficial releases.
> * Communication between developers.
> * Official bug list.
> * Open development for easy beta testing.
> * Stability for ncurses users.
> * Public development schedule.
> * Continued development.
> * No dictation.
> * A stable mailing list. (Ah ha! It's all Netcoms fault!)
> * Predictable decision process for releases.
> * LSM edits (undoing, fixing, etc).
> * No rogue releases.
> * No dirty tricks.
> * Politeness.
> * State goals for the next year.
> * Cleanup docs.
> * Clarification of roles.
> * Optimization of the credits.
> * Clarification of copyrights.
>
>My suggestion is adding to this list, concerned parties sorting
>by preference, adding commentary for specific items, and
>comparing lists. As a member of the peanut gallery I'm not
>particularly concerned about this taking place in public or
>private, or even that it takes place. I'm just thankful to all
>of the developers, bug reporters, and anyone else that has made
>ncurses as cool as it is. I hope it stays that way.

Since you are full of good idea :-), maybe you should volunteer to
coordinate the ncurses effort as I mentioned in an earlier message.
>--
>The Internet is not The Channel.
>
Received on Thu Jan 30 1997 - 21:22:32 EST

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