I'm preparing FreeDOS 1.0-pre1 as we speak. On 6/29/06, Michael Devore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 06:28 PM 6/29/2006 -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > <snip> > >I don't _really_ think FreeDOS is dead. But we have stalled. There > >hasn't been any new development with FreeDOS in a long time. The last > >news item on the web site was posted 8 June, but the last FreeDOS news > >item dates back to 16 May and 11 January. Honestly, our lack of > >progress means I've started to lose interest. After 12 years, there's > >also been lots of bickering on the project, and I kind of got tired > >dealing with it all. Recently, we've had some flame wars which seems to > >have taken up all the bandwidth from people working on FreeDOS. IMHO I > >don't think it's going anywhere. I'd love for someone to pick up > >FreeDOS and keep it going, but I don't think it will be me. I'll still > >continue to register the freedos.org domain, and I'll keep it current. > >That's the least I can do. > > > >I guess I sort of "snapped" when I sat down on 28 June and was about to > >write up a "Happy Birthday to FreeDOS" news item, talking about how far > >we've come, and how great it will be when FreeDOS "1.0" is released. > > No, I'm sorry, this explanation doesn't quite do it to me. You are the > sole owner of the FreeDOS name. You can declare version 1.0, or 2.0.5 or > 3.gizmo.woofdaddy at any time -- 1.0 release status doesn't and never did > need a committee. Just do it, give everybody on development a month's > notice and roll out what's there. FreeDOS certainly works good enough for > 1.0 release. In fact, I think it's worked well enough for a > while. "Bugfree" won't ever happen. > > I am certain that either Bernd or Blair would make the final 1.0 fileset > for you to announce to the world. And if I'm wrong, heck, for guaranteed > 1.0 release I'd do it myself. > > As far as the recent prolonged flame-wars, most have spun up out of Johnson > Lam's misbehavior on the list, between being a one-way conduit of abuse and > pushing his personally preferred non-open-source products like he was on > sales commission. You could have -- and I would argue in your capacity as > an administrator you should have -- warned and then shut off his access to > the list until he was ready to act like a minimally responsible > poster. You would have heard cries of censorship of course, one always > does in those situations, but it would have stopped the nonsense cold. You > might even have warned a few others, myself included, about publicly > defending ourselves and FreeDOS development too loudly, vigorously, or > profanely against attack. And, frankly, however unpleasant, taking those > actions is in your job description. Nobody else can do it. > > If I don't sound terribly sympathetic, well, I'm afraid it is because I'm > not. It isn't because your web joke was stupid; my own scrapbook of > stupidity has much worse. It's because it is past time for you stop > observing how things here have degenerated, and to instead take the > initiative to step forward and declare FreeDOS 1.0-ready. I'd sure like to > see it, because even though I've invested only a small fraction of the time > in FreeDOS that you have, and a number of others here (and elsewhere) have, > it's still enough effort that I'd like to see it get out there and go. > > Up to you. > > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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