Hi all, As doubtless some of you will have noticed by now, after over two months of Internet downtime, plenty of lost mail, government bureaucracy, a lot of patches and catching up and all the other things that have insisted upon befalling me in recent times when they really weren't wanted, I am back and will soon be taking up the role of supreme hacker extraordinaire again (yeah, right! :-) ) in the fixing of Windows builds to get a release closer to completion. The actual story of how my ISP, by means of a typo in an entry field in an authentication database, more or less needlessly (but very successfully!) kept me from working during most of my downtime and then failed to give me sufficient compensation for both the downtime and a router they never sent is too hideous to recount. So I won't. Needless to say, it's been shaky and after much contortion I am about ready to get into it again. I'll be visiting Matthew properly for the first time in quite a bit, too, and doubtless we'll be discussing the project then as well. Well, until we find the nearest bar, anyway. :-)
About the only other thing that's happened recently, noteworthy for being quite wonderful in all this strife, is that I now have a pet cat called Tab. She's a gingery-orange tabby and had obviously just been turned out as a stray. She's in excellent health and has ridden everything out so far. She's a sweet little thing and a delight to keep. Anyway, on to the news ... I'm certainly pleased with the way the lists have sustained themselves while we've been unavailable. It's always nice to see so much support amongst the community members. This is an important thing for AGRIP. Thanks to everyone for putting their hands in and helping others when it was really needed and when we were unable to. Looking at the archive is a pleasure because people's questions have almost all been dealt with very well by the community. On the other hand, there's been some flaming. There's even been a little shouting at the poor, helpless moderators for not getting involved. The discussion and its conclusion needs no real accounting for, but needless to say that we are not negligent, that we really are watching proceedings carefully, and that it isn't pleasant to find among the rumblings of minor discontentments a rejoinder about our suitability as moderators. We're busy, being run over, studying, being disconnected from the internet, being caught up in bureaucracy, taming new animals and all the rest. Okay? It's not our fault. While we're on the subject of mail, we now have a backlog of some 250 mails which did not get dealt with on the list. They were sent to us personally and weren't forwarded. Quite a few people went on to subscribe and ask on-list, which is great, but there are a few that didn't. Those mails, as well as unanswerable mails and bug reports, will get seen to in time. If you want to voice any objections about AQ, now is the time to do it, because soon we'll be aggregating all this mail into a hitlist which will be the focus just before the release and, most likely, just afterwards in the form of contributory patches. So make yourself heard now, please. In the immediate future, though, mail is getting less attention (it was hard enough just catching up with the last lot, what with my mail loss - thank goodness we have archives of the list, at least) while we're busy at work on the all-important features for the first milestone release in quite a while! Right, that's about it for now. It's good to be back, if exhausting. A week of Herculean work seems to have just about managed to pay off, and the real work commences soon! Cheers, Sabahattin -- Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Address harvesters, snag this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sound, QA, Misc. Development, AGRIP Project http://agrip.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ AGRIP-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.agrip.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/agrip-discuss
