Bioperl: some problems I've encountered with site and distro

[James Gilbert]

Hi,

I tagged the 0.6.1 release on "branch-06" with
"release-06-1" before making the release.

Sorry I didn't update the CHANGES file; I wasn't
aware of it.

	James

On Fri, 19 May 2000, Steve Chervitz wrote:

> Chris Dagdigian writes:
>  > 
>  > Hi folks,
>  > 
>  > Can someone confirm that the 0.6.1 bugfix release was built straight from the "release-06" branch
>  > in our CVS repository? I cannot update the module documentation on the website until I know
>  > what branch I should be running through the pod2html program.
> 
> Use the branch-06 tag. We've been trying to adopt the convention that
> all branch tags contain the word "branch". 
> 
> Now that 0.6.1 is out, we should tag this branch with "release-061".
> 
> 
>  > Also I've noticed 2 problems:
>  > 
>  > o nobody is updating the Changes file in our distribution. Email is not good enough :) this
>  > info needs to get put into CVS as soon as possible as the current Changes file is current only
>  > up to the 05 release!
> 
> What we need is a pre-release and post-release checklist. A while back 
> I promised to write this up and put it on bioperl.org. I'll see what I
> can do...
> 
>  > o The VSNS web archives of our mailing list seem to have stopped in April. There is no archive of
>  > posts for May 2000 that I can find. This means that I cannot link to the accounce email
>  > off our website as is my usual practice for the "News" section.
>  > 
>  > Than again a broken list archiver should give me the motivation I need to finally move
>  > all our lists over to the GNU MailMan system we have running :)
>  > 
> 
> Glad you're looking into it. Have you also seen the recent spam that has been 
> coming through bioperl-bugs? We should stop this before it gets out of 
> control.
> 
> Another thing to look into is a web interface to our cvs tree. 
> Check out ViewCVS:
> 
> http://www.apache.org/websrc/viewcvs.cgi/
> 
> Steve
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