[fetchmail-devel] 6.3.0 is out - SVN overview

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Greetings,

with the release of 6.3.0 on BerliOS, I have made a few changes to SVN.

1. fetchmail-6.3.X versions are kept on
   https://decoy.wox.org/svn/fetchmail/branches/BRANCH_6-3. The 6.3.0
   release has been made from there. This branch should only receive
   documentation updates, well-tested and confirmed bug fixes, and
   translation updates.

2. I have tagged r4499 as
   https://decoy.wox.org/svn/fetchmail/tags/RELEASE_6-3-0 - running
   "make dist" on this branch should reproduce the release tarball with
   reasonable accuracy. I've used automake 1.9.6, autoconf 2.59, gettext
   0.14.3, flex 2.5.4 and bison 1.875 to build.

3. development for the future 6.4.0 version should take place on the
   trunk. We have outstanding feature patches, we still have some bugs
   to fix - some require changes of concept -, and todo.html and TODO
   (they do NOT have identical content at this time - unfortunately,
   we'll have to fix this, too!), see for instance
   <http://bugs.debian.org/fetchmail>. Some of the patches we still have
   pending are mentioned in the Wiki:
   <http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=FetchmailPatchReview>

4. I will not do major work on fetchmail this month and probably not
   next month either. Bugfixing 6.3.0 will suffice, and I expect we'll
   see quite a few bug reports come in now that people can hope for a
   fix.

I have not yet managed to write a decent release announcement and rework
every tiny bit of the web page - help welcome.

I also have not yet announced this 6.3.0 widely (freshmeat, other
mailing lists) - we'll see how the first downloaders receive this
software and if we need to do 6.3.1 quickly or not.

Happy fetching,

-- 
Matthias Andree