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

07. - 13. August

• New Cairo Release - v1.2.2.
  • This new release contains (in addition to updated core Cairo code) a new FontConfig library, which does not create fonts.cache files, but stores its cache data in OS2.INI, thus, it should not interfere with XFree86's FontConfig anymore.
  • Cairo v1.2.2 runtime, self-installing WarpIn archive:

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/cairo-1.2.2-os2-bin.exe

• • Updated Doodle's Screen Saver Cairo modules, self-installing WarpIn archive:

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/dss_cairo_modules_v17.exe

• • • CHECK locations!!!

31. July - 06. August

• XWP
  • The German NLS package for 1.0.5 is available.
  • The NLS package can now be installed from the main XWorkplace package as well, if they reside in the same directory.
• GBM Plugin Version 1.10 for Lucide
  • Save bitmap in any GBM supported format (if it has only one page, requires Lucide beta 2.1)
  • Remove code for rendering to a buffer, rendering is now always via HPS
  • Now supports dynamic lookup of GBM.DLL. Either via LIBPATH or look into the directory where lugbm.dll is located.

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.