Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Progress on Sapphire

[Mike A. H. <mh...@me...>]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

>Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:33:24 -0500
>From: Eric S. Raymond <es...@th...>
>To: James Simmons <jsi...@ac...>
>Cc: Linux Console Project <lin...@li...>
>Subject: Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Progress on Sapphire
>
>James Simmons <jsi...@ac...>:
>> Cool. Now that CVS is ready we can place it in there.
>
>It's still really Dominik's patch -- I'll let him check it in.
>I'm not sure how to handle the changes to console_codes(4).  Maybe
>I'll just ship those direct to Andries.
>
>> > BTW, have we done a public launch announcement for c.o.l.a yet?
>> > If not, I'll write and ship one.
>> 
>> Not really. I announced it on lkml but that was it. 
>
>OK, I'll get us some publicity.  I'm good at that ;-).  Though, on second
>thought, maybe the time to make noise might be when we ship Emerald and 
>Sapphire?  I kind of like putting working code on the table along with
>an announcement.

I agree.  Otherwise we could get /.ed and not really have
anything for people to look at.  They'd likely look and then
forget about the project as too premature..  Lets hold off on a
c.o.l.a announcement until code is ready - assuming it will be
soon of course.

Take care,
TTYL

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