Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!altnet!edc
From: edc@ALTOS.COM (Eric Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Handling Elm bug releases
Summary: I'll volunteer (again)
Message-ID: <362@altnet.ALTOS.COM>
Date: 6 Jun 88 11:23:40 GMT
References: <1080@bellboy.UUCP>
Reply-To: edc@altnet.UUCP (Eric Christensen)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA.
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Back when Dave first had to give up coordinating Elm bug fixes, I volunteered to
coordinate future releases. At the same time, someone else also volunteered to
coordinate. Since I was really too busy at the time to do a good job of it, I
let this other person do it (notice that I'm not mentioning names).

Well, obviously it didn't work out, for whatever reason. Hence, here I am again
volunteering to coordinate Elm.

I would prefer to start with the 2.0 gamma (is that o.k. Dave?), but if there's
enough demand, I'll go back and do a posting of 1.7.

I can provide annonymous uucp as well, although I don't want to be flooded with
requests for 2.0 gamma sources yet. There seems to be some debate over the
legitimacy (is that a real word?) of the 2.0 gamma sources. Until Dave either
turns over the "real" sources to the duly elected coordinator, or gives his
blessing to the current 2.0 gamma sources, I don't feel that they should be
widely distributed. 

I will maintain source trees under SCCS and RCS which can be pulled from via
uucp. This will help ensure that several of us don't undo each others fixes
and enhancements. I have used this system for several "real" projects where
we have engineers spread all over the world. It worked real nice, as long as
it's properly maintained. (Note: I have never done the dual SCCS/RCS source 
tree before. Do we need it? Or is RCS only sufficent? I don't mind the 
extra work, but I don't want to waste time creating and maintaining 2 source
trees if everybody is using RCS.)

I personally can test under Xenix 3, Xenix V, Unix V/386 (i.e. 5.3.1), SVR2,
and SVR3.1. I also have access to a VAX running 4.2, but I don't want to
commit to testing there until I talk to it's master about it.

I can be reached at (408)433-3614 virtually any time of the day or night (yes,
I AM a workaholic). If I'm not there, my PhoneMail is. :-) And of course, by
Email.
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