I finally have (I think!) the hsqldb cron jobs working for CVS and fora and News on the website at http://hsqldb.sourceforge.net This is part of the ongoing efforts at better documentation and more support to our partners, developers and users.
Towards this end, and after many requests, we are revamping the CVS tree at Sourceforge for the project. On the drop of our latest RC, we will begin a 96-hour count-down and you will see some meaningless drivel coming from the CVS at the [hsqldb-announce] maillist. Ignore this. At the end of the 96 hours, we will request a 'blitz' of the existing CVS tree and the supporting RCS systems files from the user support folks at Sourceforge (Thanks in advance, Jason!). At the 90-hour point, we will download a complete snapshot of the source tree, establish a new, public [hsqldb-cvs] maillist AND CLOSE OUT THE CVS TREE. After the snapshot download, we will re-org and get ready for the Sourceforgers to tell us the tree and supporting RCS sysfiles are clean and, (hopefully) sometime very soon after the 96-hour mark, we will upload the new tree, with testing and a set of contributors' documents on the website. The tools we will be using for testing will include a package/project test similar to the current SelfTest, boucherb's suite of tests, the jellytools (for UI testing) and puppycrawl.com's checkstyle tools set for STRICT adherence to the Sunstyle styleguide for Java. The final snapshot of the tree will be available for download as soon as we can get it zipped and uploaded to the Files section of the Project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/hsqldb A candidate new tree will be available at approximately the same time for comment on alternative module structure. Right now the structure/modules are proposed to be: www (for the website only) hsql (the JRE 1.1.x-compatible version of the project) hsqldb (the full version of the project-currently the [stable] module) chisolm (now called [high-hopes] dev (a directory for temporary, experimental use - kind of a sandbox or chalkboard) Only [hsql] and [hsqldb] will be reported out for [hsqldb-cvs] lists and we may just eliminate all modules except [hsql] and [hsqldb], in favor of solely using complex branching, with the new notations (above). This notice to the maillists is in preparation for this move, expected in the next week to two week period, and is something of an RFC. Interested parties should subscribe to the [hsqldb-announce] maillist at http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hsqldb-announce or browse the archive at http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/11084/ for further information. No further information will be posted about this issue except at the [hsqldb-announce] maillist and on the Project's News Page. All discussion for this message and topics/issues related to it should be done at the [hsqldb-developers] maillist. Further promulgation of this message on appropriate NNTP News Groups is encouraged, as is further promulgation within and to projects using hsqldb. I will try to inform everyone I can, but the community's help is appreciated in getting the word out. I will post to the [java.databases] newsgroup tomorrow morning. Thanks as always for your support. Michael J. Cannon hsqldb.org PM/COO _______________________________________________ hsqldb-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hsqldb-developers
