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[Sbcl-announce] sbcl-0.7.2 released; policy changes; SourceForge kudos
From: William Harold Newman <william.newman@ai...> - 2002-03-24 19:57
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Release 0.7.2 is now available through the usual web pages, <http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbcl/> <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1373> Incidentally, in case you don't follow the sbcl-devel list, there've been some policy changes discussed there which might interest users reading here. * I've started opening up CVS access. Currently Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow are authorized to make CVS commits. * Ordinarily, I'll try to make a new release late in each month, after mostly freezing the system for testing on or around the 20th of the month. Also incidentally, since I've griped about SourceForge's file release system in the past, it would be only fair to acknowledge that they seem to have improved it a lot recently. I still think it was a questionable decision on their part to make it so complicated, and it's still complicated. But now they seem to be documenting the behavior well enough, and debugging the implementation enough, that the real cost of the complexity is mostly on their end. On my end (as a user of the system, i.e. a project administrator), it seems to be down at the minor nuisance level, since this time doing a basic file release just worked. In particular, most previously mysterious things (like size limits on, and buggy behavior of, some mandatory uploads) either worked better or were documented or both; the wait time for seeing your new file release appear seems to have dropped to a minute or less; and they had added several links to how-to documents which (I gather from the titles) will help new users who don't need the complexity figure out the ordinary path through the system. -- William Harold Newman <william.newman@...> "Now it's a couple of guys sitting in a living room with laptops. (And jeans turn out not to be the last word in informality.)" -- <http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html> PGP key fingerprint 85 CE 1C BA 79 8D 51 8C B9 25 FB EE E0 C3 E5 7C |
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