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From: paul@ukpoit.co.uk (Paul Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: comp.os.minix splitup
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.145307.22434@ukpoit.co.uk>
Date: 22 Mar 91 14:53:07 GMT
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In article <31178@usc> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:
>How about a moderated group for official new releases of Minix?
>And officially approved bug fixes?
In the past I have been caught out by multitudes of fixes, and not knowing
which ones are "official" and which ones are "unofficial".

Fixes which have been fully beta-tested need some kind of flag to indicate
this fact. Fixes which are untested also need to be flagged. Perhaps separate
groups is the answer, unless there is an alternative.

Should there be separate groups for standard and advanced Minix? The
opportunities for confusion in this area will be extremely high.

A releated issue is:
    Perhaps there is a need for a "Road Map" document, like Unix
    International have for System V. I know that there is work going
    on for Posix-ification of Minix. TCP/IP is also being done. In
    the short term there is UUCP, mail, news, advanced Minix, etc, etc.
    A good indication of the need for a "Road Map" is that I don't
    know everything that is going on in Minix. Who does? Is it secret?
    Does everyone agree what the "Road Map" is or will be?

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