Netlabs News: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 11:49, 14 July 2025

News: 14. July - 20. July

bww bitwise works Gmbh
- See:

News: 7. July - 13. July

Paul Smedley Ports: Qt v6 Application Testing
- Minor updates
- See: https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,3252.870.html#lastPost

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?)
Checkout https://github.com/bitwiseworks/mozilla-os2/commits/master for Mozilla as well and https://github.com/bitwiseworks/eclipse.platform.swt/commits/master-os2 for SWT

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 :-) (you can also use the template with empty descriptions).

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
martiniturbide at gmail dot com
submit at os2voice dot org
webmaster at ecomstation dot com
webredactie at os2-gg dot nl
ktk at netlabs dot org
MacOSJan at xs4all 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_newsletter4). 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.

Besides the above, a weekly version is published on the new BLOG site (http://blog.netlabs.org/). All what has to be done is create a new entry, type in 'News:' with the period behind it. Grab the content from this newsletter page in presentation mode and past it in the body of the new entry. Check the 'netlabs.org news' option, on the right, and press Publish.

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-[[Category:Netlabs]]
+=== News: 14. July - 20. July ===
-[[Category:Newsletter]]
+* bww bitwise works Gmbh
+**
+** See:
-This page will be used to gather news about netlabs.org and it's projects.<br>
+=== News: 7. July - 13. July ===
+* Paul Smedley Ports: Qt v6 Application Testing
-If you are looking for the bi-weekly newsletter, please go here: [[Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter]]
+** Minor updates
-=== 5. March - 11. March ===
+** See: https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,3252.870.html#lastPost
-* Samba for eCS (OS/2)
-** there is now also a svn and a trac see: http://svn.netlabs.org/samba
-* Updates to The Config.sys Documentation Project
-** Finally "The Config.sys Documentation Project" and the "ConfigTool 1.3.0 database" are combined together into a single wiki page on the EDM2. The invitation is open to everybody on the OS/2-eCS community to extend the wiki and add more config.sys commands.
-** http://www.edm2.com/index.php/The_Config.sys_Documentation_Project
-* Voyager News
-** Added patches from winter camp 2007 hacking.
-** Basic drag and drop for the desktop. Still working on that.
-**Some more methods for the NOM kernel classes.
-**Some automatic parameter checking when calling methods implemented.
-**Preparation for runtime type information and introspection.
-**Improved the Doxygen documentation.
-**As usual a bunch of bug fixes... err... code refinements ;).
-**Updates to the FAQ regarding license and source code.
-**See SVN for more information: http://svn.netlabs.org/v_nom/timeline and http://svn.netlabs.org/v_desktop/timeline
-=== 26. February - 4. March ===
-* Warpstock Europe Website Discussion
-** netlabs.org wiki is used to host a general discussion about concept for a Warpstock Europe website
-** User input is welcome!
-** See: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Warpstock_Europe_Websites
-* DoxBox Version 0.70
-** Now supports playing Audio-CDs in DOSBox
-** See: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/dosbox
-** Also of interest to DosBox users: DosBoxFront
-*** See: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dosboxfront
-* Samba Server 3.0.24 and 3.0.25pre
-** Paul Smedley is building Samba Server for netlabs.org
-** See: http://smedley.info/os2ports/samba.html
-* Uniaud
-** We are working on getting the source code buildable
-** See: http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud
-* Network Connection Manager - Design for follow-up to Wireless LAN Monitor
-** Christian Langanke has started to work on the design for a follow-up to the Wireless LAN Monitor
-** See: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Network_Connection_Manager
-* netlabs.org without Adrian for 3 months
-** Adrian Gschwend will be on vacation for 3 months :-)
-** Read more about it here: http://blog.netlabs.org/?p=9
-* FM/2
-** Small bug fixes
-** See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
-* kLIBC
-** Small updates in the source code
-** See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
-* NewView
-** Various small updates
-** See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
 === Guidelines for mail gathering and bi-weekly processing ===
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 * http://news.netlabs.org/
 * various SVN timelines for the projects that are already in SVN (needs to be listed explicitly?)
+* Checkout https://github.com/bitwiseworks/mozilla-os2/commits/master for Mozilla as well and https://github.com/bitwiseworks/eclipse.platform.swt/commits/master-os2 for SWT
 There is a mail id on netlabs for mailing out the newsletter to various contacts.
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 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 :-)
+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 :-) (you can also use the [http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_News_Template template] with empty descriptions).
 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
+* martiniturbide at gmail dot com
 * 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
+* MacOSJan at xs4all 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.
+After the newsletter is sent the 'Netlabs bi-weekly newsletter' webpage has to be updated. (http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter4). 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.
+Besides the above, a '''weekly''' version is published on the new ''BLOG'' site (http://blog.netlabs.org/).
+All what has to be done is create a new entry, type in 'News:' with the period behind it.
+Grab the content from this newsletter page in presentation mode and past it in the body of the new entry.
+Check the 'netlabs.org news' option, on the right, and press Publish.
+[[Category:News]]