Addressing MC stagnation.

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Mon May 23 01:17:22 UTC 2005


Hello, Miguel!

On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 17:46 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    Thanks for raising this issue up, I think that we should proceed in
> various stages to address some of the problems that we have today in mc:
> 
> 	* The website should move to a Wiki.
> 
> 	  I will have our sysadmins setup a Wiki for MC based on the
> 	  success we have had with Hula, Mono and Beagle.  The use of
> 	  the Wiki means that users can effectively contribute to the
> 	  well state of the project, documentation, tutorials and
> 	  addressing problems that people face.
> 
> 	  Also using the forum feature and discussion is a good way
> 	  of keeping archives easily accessible to everyone.

Fine with me.

> 	* Release-often: MC has not been officially released for a 
> 	  long time.  I propose that the current CVS gets released
> 	  as MC 5.0 and if any issues are found with the release
> 	  we release 5.0.1, 5.0.2 and so on to address these problems.

OK.  I guess we need to release 4.6.1 from the branch as well.  I
understand some developers really want it.

>    For the Wiki, all we need is a domain name (or we can keep it under
> the obscure url we can put it on).

I have midnightcommander.org registered on Gandi.  I can set its IP
address to anything.  But I don't have any servers to host Wiki.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin




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