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

13. November - 19. November

• GenMAC 2 Released
  • needs more info
• New XWLAN v3.0
  • Details needed
• AMPOS2
  • Updates for Apache and MySQL
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/ampos2/timeline
• kLibC
  • Various updates
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
• Lucide
  • Extended error reporting
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline
• QT 3 Library for OS/2
  • Several fixes to QLibary
  • Kernel fixes for compiler warning and recursion
  • Spontaneous traps of Qt applications during window management have been fixed
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/ticket/34
• Uniaud
  • APM (non ACPI) stuff testing still going. Resume no more hangs system but still no sound after it.
  • Inegrating latest ALSA sources
• WVGUI
  • Playing around with new demuxers. AVI demuxer is good, but others is not very handy. Especially for DVDs. Planning to use new demuxer for AVI's only. Need a lot of additional tests
  • Fixed CDDA playing (still need to add caching)
  • Planning (reasearch stage) to use common cacher for DVD/VCD/CDDA/File/Network streams
• WDSybil
  • Update to version 20061114
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/wdsibyl/timeline

6. November - 12. November

• eCUPS
  • GhostScriptRasterPrinting updated
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/timeline
• kLibC
  • Various updates
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
• Lucide
  • Makefile cleanup
  • EA thumbnail processing
  • Pipe commands added
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline
• QT 3 Library for OS/2
  • GNUMAKE fixed
  • System exceptions handling changed
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/timeline
• Voyager Documentation
  • Small updates
  • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/v_doc/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 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.