From: Randall S. Winchester (rsw@Glue.umd.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 08 1999 - 12:41:24 CST
I have a couple comments on this;
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
: I'd like to see a new project maintainer for Hypermail 2. Five long months
: have passed since the previous version was announced from Kent and he hasn't
: even posted more than a few mails during that time.
Yes, but when he did there was some discussion between the two of you on
which code base to start from, yours or his.
: I think Kent has made a great job and put a lot of effort into this, but to
: make hypermail move on I strongly urge that we find new ways of making
: progress. We can't just sit and wait for Kent forever.
I agree with you. A CVS tree with network maintainance is needed.
I was really hopeing Kent would send out his current code base for us to
move on from. If this is avaliable, this would be my recommendation.
To me there are a couple near term priorities that must be addressed.
1) Make HyperMail Year-2000 friendly. It is currently not compliant. Kent
had fixed this in his source tree (or so I understood).
2) Put out a reasonably stable version (with the Y2K fixes).
3) Provide a development version to grow against.
I remember the last time Kent disappeared, there was a phone number for him.
I will be more then glad to call, despite the long distance charges, if it
would allow us to go forward with Kent's two cents included as well.
Randall