boasting on behalf on OpenCOBOL

1000 downloads, 20 days. OC should do ok.

Cheers,
Brian

I finally got an account at SourceForge with cobcoder as my handle.

I don't know how to send the changes to Roger While for review. He can review what I've posted to this forum and post a message if he wishes.

Otherwise, if I haven't heard anything in a few weeks, I'll go ahead and svn check in my screenio.c changes.

Well mrcool, we'll be assuming review responsibilities. By we, I mean us, ok not really but kinda.

PM human for SVN access on the forge, he's retagged the 1.1 as 1.1CE, and it's ours to play with.

So, for reviews, it'll be human, myself, and anyone else that wants to be involved. human will have final say on bumps, tagging, the trunk branch, and freezes but I'd like to see as many contributors to the tree as is manageable.

I'll run builds through 'routine testing', make check and make test (in the NIST cobol85 dir). As I would assume all developers will. Looking ahead a a little, the reference tarball of 1.1 is automake ready (umm, though I haven't ever run from bootstrap), so we should be able to cut new distributions without too much fuss.

As to who gets to post a new default download (that may get picked by package maintainers), I think that'll make for a good debate and I really do hope there are contributions made that make the discussion necessary.

TO BE CLEAR ON INTENT
The 1.1CE is a community 'clean up' effort while waiting for the 2.0 source tree. The 2.0 beta release date is unknown, so for now I'd like to facilitate anyone that cares to help put a new coat of paint on 1.1, maybe tune the engine.

Cheers,
Brian