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

4. September - 10. September

• NewView
  • NewView is now a netlabs project as well.
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview
• WarpVision GUI news:
  • Fixed freeze in SNAP plugin (thanks to Rudi for tip)
  • Fixed settings for Video Out plugins
  • Added native VP5/VP6 codecs
  • Testing of native WMV3 going on. There are some issues with stability, so no release possible until it will be fixed and stable.
• Uniaud news:
  • Started driver modifications for better/safer handling of DART<->UNIAUD APIs
• WarpIn Release 1.0.12
  • Fixes:
    • Fixed the severely broken package attribute parsing caused by attempting to fix bug 718 in the previous release. Bugs 836 and 718.
    • "wic -t" used to exit silently if it couldn't read the script file.
  • Homepage: http://warpin.netlabs.org/
  • Netlabs download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/warpin/warpin-1-0-12.exe
  • Hobbes Incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/warpin-1-0-12.zip
  • Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=warpin-1-0-12

28. August - 3. September

• WarpIn Release 1.0.11
  • Lots of small fixes
  • Homepage: http://warpin.netlabs.org/
  • Netlabs download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/warpin/warpin-1-0-11.exe
  • Hobbes Incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/warpin-1-0-11.zip
  • Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=warpin-1-0-11
• Lucide Beta 3
  • Basic printing features were added
  • Redraw and scrolling bugs were fixed
  • Improved national language support
  • Plugins can now be compiled with GCC
  • Download at the eComStation Betazone (after Login): http://www.ecomstation.com
  • Bug Reports: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide
  • Support Mailing List and Newsgroup: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/
• LIBC Development
  • There have been various bug fixes and a few new features added to LibC
  • The next release will be 0.6.2, a date for this release is not yet set
  • More Details: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline

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 hartnell dot cc dot ca dot us
• 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.