Topic: What is the Status of SME 6.5?

[anurag]

Hi
I have the following questions about the status of SME 6.5?

1. What is the status of SME 6.5? After SME 6.5RC1 release in Mid Feb 2005, there are no updates or SME 6.5 release.

2. Is there a date by which SME6.5 production version shall be available? What is the roadmap?

3. After the bugs reported for SME 6.5RC1 have been resolved/fixed, how do I get the latest version (bug fixed version) of SME6.5RC1? Is there a nightly built available for download?

4. I observed that no bugs have been resolved after March 11th 2005. What is happening to SME6.5? What is the status?

5. News item about SME 6.5RC1 has been removed from the contribs news where as SME 6.5 Beta 2 link is available.

Please help.

thanks with regards
Anurag

[MSmith]

And crossposting too!  Nice.  I'll visit the Suggestions forum next and see if he made the "hat trick".

[pwinkler]

I also would like to know the answer to anurag's ?'s.

[MSmith]

Well, sure, we would ALL like to know when the next gold release of the software will show up.  But even Microsoft can't get Longhorn out less than two years late, so who are we to ask developers who are giving *freely* of their time and effort to conform to any sort of schedule?

I'd like to put off building a server or two until the next release, but I won't, because we're not going to know when the next release is out until it's out.  Unless some serious policy changes are made by the dev team!

[guest22]

Hi,

To try to give answers to the above questions, we need to identify some 'SME Server community' roles here;

1. Website lurkers
2. Website users
3. Website participants
4. Website contributors
5. SME Server how-to contributors
6. SME Server contribs contributors
7. SME Server scripts contributors
8. SME Server update contributors/programmers
9. SME Server enhancements contributors/programmers
10. SME Server passive developers
11. SME Server active developers
12. SME Server core developers

The community lacks a number of people in some categories, aka as 'no healthy balance'.

The last time I spoke to category 12 people, they told me that this community (if in balance) has enough info and skills and produce a 'gold' release. They did their fair share.

So let's find that balance...

[girkers]

And the circle goes around again.  I am starting to get dizzy about all this going around and around.  I have said a long time ago that this needs to be more organised so people can slot themselves into these teams  with good leadership to guide the direction.

This is what I thought Ruffdogs was doing, but obviously it looks like he has gone either by the wayside or buried in legal BS.

[ngomes]

The SME Server development (aka, the new releases) and maintenance (aka, the updates) depends entirely on the Contribs.org community.

Just to keep all of you up to date, Ian Wells, Floyd Hartog, Dave Kainer and Matthew Copple (sorry if I left someone out) are the people trying to give to this community the SME Server 6.x maintenance and bugfix updates and  bring to live the SME Server 6.5 final stable release.

Contribs.org needs your help on this project.
What can you do for Contribs.org?

# Read the maintenance process:
http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/Maintenance%20Process

# Join the devinfo mailing list and offer your help to test, debug, etc:
http://lists.contribs.org/mailman/listinfo/devinfo

# Go to the Contribs.org Bug Tracker and study some of the listed bugs with new or feedback status, simulate them, give your feedback, try to find some sort of solution. Also if you have some packager skills try to build some rpm packages to the listed bugs with resolved or closed status:
http://no.longer.valid/mantis/view_all_bug_page.php

Finally, take these thoughts into seriously consideration (taken from Charlie Brady, a SME core developer):

If maintenance of distribution updates is not a "core role" for contribs.org, then what is?

Don't ask what contribs.org can do for me, ask what I can do for contribs.org.

-Nuno