FW: announcements

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Following might be of interest to users here.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-members@XFree86.Org [mailto:owner-members@XFree86.Org]On
> Behalf Of David Dawes
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 2:25 PM
> To: members@XFree86.Org
> Subject: announcements
> 
> 
> The public availability of the XFree86 CVS repository was announced on
> our web site, and at Usenix, yesterday afternoon.  As some have noticed,
> slashdot has picked it up too.
> 
> At about the same time, the availability of some public mailing
> lists was also announced (details of the lists can be found at
> http://www.xfree86.org/mailman/listinfo).  Archives for the public
> lists are also publicly accessible.
> 
> For now, the existing membership process will remain.  Membership
> will continue to provide access to resources that we can't make
> public, and to our private mailing lists, but it is obviously no
> longer required for code access.  The public "announce" list will
> be used for announcements of both official releases, and of "alpha"
> tags.
> 
> I'd like to encourage developers to join the "newbie" and "xpert"
> lists and to be visible on those lists.
> 
> Although it hasn't been announced yet, the existing public contact
> lists (xfree86@xfree86.org, webmaster@xfree86.org) are now archived,
> and those archives are publicly accessible
> (http://www.xfree86.org/archives/)
> 
> The opening of the CVS repository and the new mailing lists are
> the first steps in a process aimed at making the Project and its
> work more visible and accessible.  Important next steps include:
> 
>    - Making archives of the patch and fixes lists public, and 
> maybe opening
>      these lists to public subscription.
>    - Making the cvs-commit list archive public, and opening it to public
>      subscription
>    - Adding a real bug tracking system
>    - Moving the internal list management over to mailman, and integrating
>      the existing list archives in to mailman's archiving system.
> 
> David
> -- 
> David Dawes                                      Email: dawes@XFree86.org
> Founder/President, The XFree86 Project, Inc      Phone: +1 813 789 6919
> http://www.xfree86.org/                          Fax:   +61 2 9897 3755