[rkward-devel] Status update

Stefan Rödiger stefan_roediger at gmx.de
Mon Sep 17 18:06:34 UTC 2007


Am Freitag, 14. September 2007 17:01:11 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
> Hi all,
>
> a quick status update, while I'm trying to catch up with all the mail in my
> inbox:
>
> 1 - RKWard 0.4.7a is incompatible with the upcoming R 2.6.0. R 2.6.0 alpha
> is already in debian unstable, and causing rkward to break, there. I've
> prepared a fixed debian package, and hope it will be uploaded to debian,
> soon. For the rest of the world, R 2.6.0 is scheduled to be released on
> October 3. I suggest we should try to release RKWard 0.4.8 in roughly the
> same timeframe, giving us about two and a half weeks to get everything to a
> presentable state.
>
> 2 - I'll need a bit of help to get back up to speed. I'd like to ask you to
> 2a - If you are aware of any pending issues that I should have a look at
> soon, please give me a note. If I have not responded, yet, most likely I
> simply did not see them, or forgot about them.
> 2b - Please list any new or changed plugins that you have been working on
> in the wiki
> (http://rkward.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Development_Status_of_P
>lugins). I'll try to have a look at all of those as soon as I can.
> 2c - If you're following the SVN version, please start to do some testing.
> I don't think there will be any more large scale changes before the
> release, so it's time to start hunting down the bugs.
>
> 3 - Spam has reached fairly annoying levels, both on the mailing list, and
> in the wiki (yesterday I spent more than an hour to clean up the wiki). If
> you have suggestions on how to deal with this, that would be nice. Right
> now, I'm playing with two ideas:
> 3a - For the wiki: Do not allow to create new users any more. New users
> will have to be created manually by a trusted user. Of course this defies
> some important advantages of having a wiki in the first place, but at the
> moment, the effort to contain the spam is just getting out of hands. Either
> way, it would also be nice, if some of you could volunteer to act as Sysops
> for the wiki. That is, I'll give you some additional rights, so you can
> delete spam pages and block spam accounts. Then, maybe every once in a
> while, you could take a look at the "Recent Changes" page in the wiki, and
> clear up any vandalism that you can find.

I volunteer.

> 3b - For the mailing list: I suggest to restrict (unmoderated) posting to
> subscribers. I'd also like to make a number of you moderators in this case,
> so legitimate posts by non-subscribers can be admitted to the list in due
> time.
> Of course, all kinds of different suggestions are welcome.
>
> Regards
> Thomas

Something of topic. I would like to have access to the rkward-mailing list 
(besides the source forge service) via http://gmane.org/ . It's fast and has 
some other advantages while reading on-line. Check it and find out if you 
like it. If you do so I will apply there.





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