That is
great Steve. On many mailing lists in other organizations
there is a "best of the week" type message posted periodically. Kind of an
editorial summary of what is new and important. If you or anyone else
would like to take that on, it would be a great
asset.
A few things to note though. The
readme entries are already kept "all in one place". The complete readme is
in the distribution for the software. We can start posting the whole
readme file instead of the latest updates, but that seems a bit
redundant. Perhaps we could put the readme on the FTP site in a separate
file. I have considered that in the past, but it seems unlikely that
anyone that would want to download the readme wouldn't just download the latest
release (or already have it).
As for the rcr, support, and bugtrack
items. We actually archive all that stuff, so its "all in one place"
too. We used to have web access to it, but it broke early this year and
was never fixed. I can put it back up, but I have never really resolved
the security issue. We put a password on the web page of course, but that
one password then gives people access to all the GEMS passwords simply by
reading the list. Invariably, the password gets given to customers (and
non-customers). If anyone has any ideas on how to give people access to
the archives of our mailing lists, without causing undue grief, please let me
know.
The readme file does not contain the
password list like your doc has, but putting up a single list brings us back to
the "one password" problem. Perhaps we could keep a list of the passwords
and post the list to announce every once in a while. Again, I'm open to
suggestions. I know keeping track of the passwords is a pain, but it beats
ordering VTS patches.
As a final note, I know I have not
made many "State of the GEMS Release" addresses on the announce list lately, and
the readme file is not itself. I apologise for that. I'll try to get
things back in line after the November crunch.
Ken
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