[Rule] Announcing Slinky 0.5.05

[C David Rigby]

Good Morning, Marco & all,

This is fine with me. As far as testing goes, "the more the merrier."

BTW, Marco, you might want to update your sigfile from FC3 to FC5! {8->

CDR

On 4/7/06, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at mclink.it> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> First of all, sorry for the confusion. I meant to add a question mark
> to the subject of my email, but my finger slipped. With respect to
> this:
>
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 08:39:36 AM +0200, C David Rigby
> (c.david.rigby at gmail.com) wrote:
> > I concur with Franz. ...I think we could definitely make significant
> > improvements with modest investments of time.
> [...]
>
> Of course there is nothing to hurry for. However, what I was really
> thinking is "is it ok to announce the latest slinky *without* raising
> big expectations, that is as an alpha version for which more testers
> are welcome"?
>
> In other words, I agree with David and Franz, I only wanted to invite
> more testers to help us *if* you think it's OK. Also because,
> personally, I have no PC to test slinky right now. My old laptop is
> dead. My desktop fell apart over Christmas and (due to living room
> remodeling) has been replaced by one small HTPC kind of box with AMD
> x64 CPU and no floppy which, for several reasons, I have to keep on
> full time doing non RULE stuff.
>
> So just let me know if you think an external announcement for
> developers/testers only could help right now.
>
> Regardless of the announcement, this weekend I will continue to
> re-order the slinky pages on the website, which would also make much
> easier for other developers to jump in and contribute. Any help is
> welcome.
>
> NOTE for Franz: On this issue, it would really be much more efficient
> if you could join as co-editor on those pages, that is add any new
> Slinky content (also) there yourself from now on. I and David would of
> course always be available for support!
>
> In the meantime, I have already uploaded all the latest slinky files
> for Fedora 5 here:
>
>         www.rule-project.org/download/fedora_core_5/slinky-0.5.05
>
> Oh, before I forget, this link is a 404:
> http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/build_configs/busybox-1.1.9.config
>
> Ciao and thanks,
>
>         Marco
>
> --
> Marco Fioretti                    mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
> Fedora Core 3 for low memory      http://www.rule-project.org/
>
> There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
>                                               Ralph Nader
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rule-list mailing list
> Rule-list at lists.hellug.gr
> http://lists.hellug.gr/mailman/listinfo/rule-list
>