Hello everyone,
First off, let me apologize for a few things.
- I hate sending mail to a group of people using BCCs, but there are
quite a few of you I wanted to keep informed and this is the most efficient
method.
- Excuse the general nature of this email. My audience here is quite
diverse; some of you have been using the control for a while, others for a
little bit, while even others I haven't even sent it to. Some have the
source, others have the binaries. Some have contributed bugs and some even
bug fixes.
- For being a little slow in responding to some of you over the past week
or so. Just know that things have been hectic and I'll spare you the
details of my life.
Now that we have that out of the way, let's get to the good stuff. As some
of you are aware, I've been using SourceForge for version control while
developing this control. The project's main page is located at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dotnetlib/ and from now on I'll be utilizing
more of SourceForge's functionality. The rest of this email will describe
which features I'm going to use and how you can participate if you were so
inclined.
- Mailing lists - I've set up two of them, one for general announcements
and one for development discussions. Feel free to subscribe to either or
both of them here: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=56982 . I would
encourage all of you to at least subscribe to the announcements list, as
unless you check the project's page periodically this will be the only way
you'll know about new releases, new controls, etc. If you would like to get
involved with the development go ahead and use the other list.
- Bug and feature trackers - while I will probably accept bug reports and
feature requests via the development mailing list, I am going to try to
start using this functionality on SourceForge as well. It will help me stay
organized and will ensure that your problems are addressed in one way or
another. On average, I receive over 1000 emails a day, about half of them
are SPAMs and the rest are mostly a variety of various mailing lists. While
my filters do a pretty good job, it's not the most ideal environment for
making sure everything gets taken care of.
- File releases - no longer will I be sending you zipped up versions of
the binaries or source code. Unless of course I'm using you to help test a
bug or feature that you reported and you don't like using CVS. I would
encourage all of you to download the 0.1.0.8 release that is currently being
hosted. It has a few fixes, performance tweaks, and memory cleanups that I
haven't sent to anybody else.
- CVS - I'll continue to use this to keep a copy of my latest source
code. Development access to the repository will be given if you're going to
be contributing code, new controls, etc.
Other than those, I won't likely be using much else of the system (unless of
course you would like to use the donation system ;-)).
The code will always be under the very flexible BSD license, so feel free to
do with it as you see fit (so long as it adheres to the few rules the
license does describe). Thanks again to everyone for helping me develop
this control. It's coming along nicely but still has a long way to go.
-Josh
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