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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:24:18 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP 2.04 [Re: ANNOUNCE: liblocal 0.1: Locale Support for DJGPP]
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Richard Dawe wrote:
> 
> > Maybe we should talk about what people want in DJGPP 2.04 and 2.05 and
> > what needs doing. I'm quite happy to maintain a web page tracking this
> > stuff. That page may be a good repository for things to-do.
> 
> The main issue, as Charles points out, is to find a
> victim^H^H^H^H^Holunteer who will manage the release through the alpha
> and beta testing.  Once we have that person in charge, we can simply
> produce the first alpha and start the release process.
[snip]

What exactly is involved in managing the release? How about this:

* Review everything that's changed between 2.03 and 2.04 and formulate tests
for the new functionality and to check that nothing's broken.

* Track and chase down bugs.

* Build lots of software using the release, to see if it breaks anything.

* Build & package alphas, betas.

Has this list omitted anything?

Can you estimate how much time it takes roughly per week to be the "release
manager"?

I was wondering if there are more/same number/less people involved in the
development of DJGPP now than there have been in the past (i.e.: for testing
purposes).

I suppose there are more combinations to test now than there may have been:
DOS in its various "pure" incarnations (MS-DOS, FreeDOS, etc.), Windows '95s,
Windows '98s, Windows NT 4 without LFN TSR, Windows NT 4 with LFN TSR, Windows
2000, Windows XP. I seem to remember you can use the LFN TSR with Win2k,
WinXP, although I'm not sure why anybody would want to do that.

<Shouts "Geronimo!"> I'm thinking of, er, volunteering. 8) I won't be around
for August/some of September, but I'm nearing the end of my DJGPP and zippo
to-do lists, so I might have time for it over the 9-month period.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]