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
  • The webpages at www.netlabs.org are almost on the same level as they used to be from a content point of view
  • FTP users still do not work, that needs some more work (LDAP...)
  • There will be more enhancements to the server the next two weeks
• 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
• Again Updates to the The Config.sys Documentation Project
  • Device and Basedev sections were updated
  • See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/The_Config.sys_Documentation_Project/DEVICE_Statements
  • See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/The_Config.sys_Documentation_Project/BASEDEV_Statements
• Voyager
  • Quite some Doxygen tags for documentation added to the source
  • Fixes, changes, checkins...
  • Started work on drag and drop in the desktop
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/v_nom/timeline, http://svn.netlabs.org/v_desktop/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.