[netnice-users] Re: toward a new package release

[Takashi O. <ta...@cs...>]

Dear netnice developers/users,


sorry for taking too long. we had so many things to do, and could not
make great progress for several months. but now, we have fixed our
release schedule and have started to work intensively to meet the
dates, as follows.

        Feb 8, 2005     alpha release
        Mar 1, 2005     beta release
        Mar 22, 2005    Release Candidate 1
        Apr 1, 2005     Netnice 2.2 Release

the alpha release (feb 8) includes the latest kernel patch for FreeBSD4.11,
FreeBSD5.3, OpenBSD3.6, NetBSD1.6.2, and hopefully, for Linux, also. We
will probably be able to add MacOS X(Darwin 7.7) and NetBSD2.0, by april 1.

i'm writing this email to you, to ask you for some help. first of all,
can some of you try the latest patch for FreeBSD4.11, on your environment,
and give me feedback so that i can improve before the alpha release?
(yes, i know you want 5.3, not 4.11. but, time is limited... i promise
to release 5.3 in the feb 8 package...)

secondly, isn't there anybody who have used FreeSBIE, or CDBSD before?
to create a bootable freebsd image? i have released one bootable CD in
june. but, since then we have made so many improvements, and added many
new software onto our repository. so, in addition to the alpha release
of the kernel patches, i would like to provide the system in a more
easy-to-use form. so, i would really appreciate if any of you volunteer
to create the iso image.

i'm really in trouble about the scheduling (too many tasks to do, too
little time.) if you participate in the development process, i will mail
netnice stickers for laptops and for servers to you (it's verrrry cool),
just as a token of my thanks.

thanks!!


-- taka

Takashi Okumura wrote:
> 
> after several months' struggle, we are finishing initial porting task of
> FreeBSD4/Netnice, onto FreeBSD5, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. i think we can
> release the alpha-patches for them in a month. Linux port and Mac OS X
> port will follow soon in several months. and, i'm writing this message
> to you, to make a decision about the alpha release.