At 09:04 AM 3/13/2004 -0600, Jim Hall wrote: >That's great! I assume it would be okay for me to post a news item on FreeDOS.org so >that more users could have a chance to test this for you. If that's not okay, let me >know and I'll take it down.
Well, it's an interesting way to make my daily ftp download counts go from 5-30 up to 150-300. Fortunately, the file sizes are small enough it doesn't matter unless it jumps by more than another order of magnitude, which I don't see happening. The new release EMM386 is significant enough that it should show as an update to the original you've listed on the FreeDOS page, if you would. Two related questions now arise, likely of interest to others as well. I anticipate there may be one, possibly two, more test releases before everyone is generally happy enough with stability and compatibility for an official release to be called in. Question one: how do you want or plan to handle an update chain of new test or non-final releases on announced software? Is there a main page announcement difference between a major and minor update, or a maximum number of updates to be chained in a main page post, or do you plan to keep the original test release announcement and only show the last update in the post chain associated with it? By update chain, I mean the update#1, update#2, post in same paragraph as initial announcement on the freedos.org main page sort of thing. Secondly, assume, as with EMM386, that a software test release has progressed to the point where it needs maximum exposure and testing. Rather then limiting announcements to the original developer list, does the freedos-user mail list have enough other subscribers that aren't present on 'devel' to post an announcement there as a cross-post? Or should anybody be cross-posting anything to the mail lists other than system announcements? Is everyone who is subscribed to 'devel' also on 'user' for the most part, so you can safely post to 'user' alone and assume you still get the potentially more advanced 'devel' subscribers reading your announcement? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
