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

15. - 21. May

• New SDL Release
• FAT32 Test Release
  • An experimental test release of the FAT32 driver was created on May 17 2006
  • Writes to FAT32 partitions should now be faster
  • THIS IS A TEST RELEASE AND SHOULD ONLY BE USED ON TEST INSTALLATION, BUT DATA CORRUPTION MAY OCCURE!!!
  • It is available through the fat32user group at YahooGroups
  • See: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fat32user/

08. - 14. May

• FAT32 Progress
  • There is ongoing development of the FAT32 IFS for OS/2 and eComStation
  • A new test version of the driver will be released in the not too distant future
  • Mailing list for users: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fat32user/
  • Mailing list for developers: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fat32dev/
• New SWT for OS/2 Development
  • SWT is the basis for porting the Eclipse development environment to OS/2 and eComStation
  • See the mailinglist/newsgroup for current progress
  • A subversion repository is already created
  • Mailing List: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.swt.devel
  • Subversion Repository: http://svn.netlabs.org/swt

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.