bulia byak wrote:
On 10/8/07, microUgly <drworm@...1743...> wrote:
Do you know what caused the spike in the middle of 2005? I suspect it was a new release but why did it generate so much attention? Releases since then didn't generate such significant spikes.
That release (perhaps it was 0.42) hit Slashdot. Newer ones didn't, or were only featured in Slashdot topical forums and not on the front page. We really must get onto Slashdot front page for 0.46.
Release 0.46 hopefully can be timed to get into the next round of distro releases, ie the H series of Ubuntu and Fedora 9. My guess is those cutoffs are around the end of the year but Bryce would know better. Which working backwards means a testing cycle starting at least a month or so before which means Nov which is not too far away. Leopard 10.5 should be out within a month or so, so the next release will make that.
Bryce, how hard would it be for a Feisty backport of a current build ? I'm willing to try to do this but thinking the scripts must be around somewhere. I think a deb and maybe rpm would be more useful than the autopackage build. This might make it far easier for some of us to put it onto some production machines asap where the real testing occurs (knowing of course there still might be bugs,etc). And this would allow for some feature changes before testing cut-offs start. Especially since there are so many new cool features.