Following our regular four-month release cycle for OpenPKG community distributions, the OpenPKG 2-STABLE-20061018 snapshot distribution of the OpenPKG Foundation e.V. is approaching for landing in the OpenPKG world next Wednesday.
Thanks to Christoph S.'s I&O department, all platforms on the OpenPKG Foundation e.V. server cluster are fully up-to-date and in good shape and thanks to Thomas L.'s E&P department the Build Farm (see http://bf.openpkg.net/) is running on all of them since over one week now. My R&D department has also already fixed a large number of packages which got broken on some platforms. So, we are currently progressing just fine and as planned. But, as you know, the snapshot engineering of the non-profit OpenPKG Foundation e.V. cannot be a full-scale release engineering and hence we especially do _not_ try to fix just all packages on all platforms. Instead we focus on CORE and BASE class packages only and can fix just as much as the free time of the volunteering OpenPKG Foundation e.V. members permit (for a full-scale release engineered distribution you have to wait for the business product OpenPKG Enterprise 1 -- which will be released by the OpenPKG GmbH soon, too). So, anybody who has an interest in particular packages of the OpenPKG community distribution to work on particular platforms, please have a look at http://bf.openpkg.net/ and help my R&D department in fixing those remaining issues for you. If you are a member of the OpenPKG Foundation e.V. just commit your fixes to the OpenPKG CVS immediately. Otherwise just send your patches to openpkg-dev@openpkg.org to be picked up by a Foundation member. Well, as always in a contribution driven community: "jump up and help to fix it or shut up and accept the status quo" ;-) Please notice that the OpenPKG 2-STABLE-20061018 distribution is very important for the OpenPKG community as with it the old OpenPKG 2.5-RELEASE is finally discarded from the OpenPKG Foundation e.V. security engineering schedule. So, for those who do not plan to switch their production setups from OpenPKG 2.5 (or even older) to the forthcoming "long-maintenance" OpenPKG Enterprise 1 release distribution, a well-shaped OpenPKG 2-STABLE-20061018 snapshot distribution is required to have a close upgrade path. Yours, Founder, President and Ralf S. Engelschall Director Research & Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPKG Foundation e.V. www.engelschall.com http://www.openpkg.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org
