Netlabs News

This page will be used to gather news about netlabs.org and it's projects.

If you are looking for the bi-weekly newsletter, please go here: Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter

5. February - 11. February

 * netlabs server
 * FM/2
 * Added file associations
 * Some new bugs found
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
 * kBuild
 * AMD64 additions
 * Changes in gnumake-header
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
 * kLibC
 * Various updates
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
 * Lucide
 * Some bugs reported and a feature request raised
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline
 * NewView
 * Quite some updates
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline

29. January - 4. February

 * netlabs server
 * Server switch is done
 * Many updates to do, but that will go smoothly overtime now
 * kBuild
 * A load of updates!
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
 * Lucide
 * 1.0 GA released
 * Various fixes
 * updated with Freetype 2.3.1
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline
 * NewView
 * Various command line updates
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
 * x-ATA
 * Added: more Intel ICH chips, more VIA chips, more ATI chips
 * Release v1.7.8
 * See: http://svn.netlabs.org/xata/timeline
 * Updates to the The Config.sys Documentation Project, DEVICE Statements Section
 * See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/The_Config.sys_Documentation_Project/DEVICE_Statements

Guidelines for mail gathering and bi-weekly processing
This is intended to be a procedure on how to create the bi-weekly newsletter, so that multiple people are able to do it, in case others are away.

The news is gathered on a weekly basis. Sources for news are various. We know the following:
 * #netlabs channel, just connect and see what comes by
 * http://news.netlabs.org/
 * various SVN timelines for the projects that are already in SVN (needs to be listed explicitly?)

There is a mail id on netlabs for mailing out the newsletter to various contacts. The mail id is: news at netlabs dot org It uses the following IMAP mailserver: mail dot netlabs dot org

For the start of a new newsletter a copy from the previous one can be made and then copy the new news into it, to make life easy :-) The easiest way to get the text is grabbing it from the webpage in normal view mode. Check the text a second time, and align it a bit. Address it with BCC to the following addresses:
 * martin at os2world dot com
 * stevew at jafar dot hartnell dot edu
 * submit at os2voice dot org
 * webmaster at ecomstation dot com
 * webredactie at os2-gg dot nl
 * ktk at netlabs dot org
 * j dot van dot der dot heide at hccnet dot nl
 * os2info at gmx dot net

Don't forget the subject line with the next number and of it goes.

After the newsletter is sent the 'Netlabs bi-weekly newsletter' webpage has to be updated. (http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter). Just copy the news on top of the others and add a heading.

Then the draft version of the bi-weekly page can be emptied and the heading for the next week can be added.

That is basicly the process of the bi-weekly newsletter.