From: Daniel Stenberg (Daniel.Stenberg@frontec.se)
Date: Wed Sep 15 1999 - 02:48:00 CDT
Hi
I'm glad to see this project increasing pace. In order to make the most out
of it, while at the same time keeping order, I have some opinions what we
should do:
1. Feature freeze, bugfixes only. From now on.
2. Get a stable version out. 2.0stablebeta. This should occur before we
apply patches from Peter McCluskey and John Finlay. Not that their
contributions are less interesting, just that we have a lot of new source
code on the door step and it can take a while to bugfix all that and I'd
rather have a stable version before.
As Kent just wrote, we're doing our best in cleaning up the current
version, and then I hope we'll release our first 2.0stablebeta.
3. Non-beta release sometime. I prefer not setting any dates.
4. Meanwhile we're fixing bugs for the stable version, we work on the
feature set for the next version and merge all the code we get from
people that are decided to be part of the hypermail future. There is no
limit to what we can include, but more religous restrictions of what
hypermail should and shouldn't do. We need a lot more discussions around
several of the topics opened up lately.
We could make sort of a fork in the project to enable us to work on post
2.0 things while we're trying to get 2.0 stable.
I would also like to open the subject about maintaining this project. I
don't want this head-of-the-class role I've gotten. I would like to see
someone else shouldering the reponsibility of maintaining and leading this
project. Kent? Jose? Paul? or why not John or Peter? I want to get back to
my former role as a "mere" contributor. The reason for this is my lack of
time and my amount of other projects that also require my attention. There's
no hurry, but...
-- Daniel Stenberg -- http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/