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

8. January - 14 January

• netlabs.org server news
  • Server configuration is going well
  • Initial TRAC & Subversion tests performed successfully (among other things)
  • Anonymous FTP is working as well
  • All data are copied
  • Setup of new fCMS is done, right now we are configuring it
  • We hope to be ready with an initial release mid-week so we can switch the servers!
• Developer Workshop 2007
  • Is going to be held in the Netherlands on June 23 & 24.
  • Location: Cultural Center Griffioen in Amsterdam
  • See: http://www.vu.nl/Organisatie/index.cfm/home_subsection.cfm/subsectionid/9DB86C70-F9C7-4704-8C9D9ED46EEDB063
  • Watch the wiki page for upcoming news: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2007
• New QT3 Applications
  • KDIFF3 0.9.91
    • KDiff3 is a program that:
    • Compares or merges two or three text input files or directories,
    • Shows the differences line by line and character by character (!),
    • Provides an automatic merge-facility,
    • An integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts,
    • Supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via byte-order-mark "BOM"
    • Supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.),
    • Printing of differences,
    • Manual alignment of lines,
    • Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$),
    • And has an intuitive graphical user interface.
    • See: http://smedley.info/os2ports
  • QDVDAuthor 0.1.4
    • Get details from: http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
    • Get download from: http://smedley.info/os2ports
• XWorkPlace Version 1.0.7
  • Fixed: Window List size/position (Bug 903)
  • Fixed: Bug 902 and 910
  • Added: ADDWIDGETS and DELETEWIDGETS setup strings to the XCenter (Bug 906)
  • Bug Tracker: http://xtracker.netlabs.org/
  • Download: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=XWP-1-0-7
• PathRewrite
  • Is an addition to LibC to give the opportunity to redirect UNIX paths to paths you define yourself.
  • Temp Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/ecsprw.wpi
• Canabis
  • EXPAT/77 added to build instructions
  • XML support added
  • Several improvements
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/canabis/timeline
• FM/2
  • Ticket 60 and 61 fixed
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
• kBuild
  • Some fixes
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
• kLIBC
  • Some fixes (I/O bugs, signals)
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
• NewView
  • Various updates
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
• UniAud
  • updates from ALSA tree
• WarpVision
  • Recording fixed. Press R while an TV program opened with TVIN
    • TODO:
      • 1. Add setup for output format to WVGUI config
      • 2. Add timer based recording start (start-stop time-date, source selection etc)
      • 3. Record from other sources than TV
      • 4. Fix sound glitches
  • DVD Menu investigations: start to porting private2 streams (menu subictures) from other projects than MPlayer (Mplayer helpless with that)

1. January - 7 January

• UniAudio
  • latest ALSA tree updates
• WarpVision
  • Fixed OGG/MKV/MOV embedded subtitles
  • DVD Menu experiments & investigations
• kBuild
  • Various small updates
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
• kLIBC
  • Fixed build breaks
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
• Lucide Updates
  • Unicode clipboard fixes
  • Work on loading password protected PDFs
  • http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline
• NewView Updates
  • Various small updates
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
• Voyager
  • Quite a few code checkins in the NOM and desktop trees. New screenshot.
  • Updates to the Object Design document (PDF)

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.