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| -rwxr-xr-x | indexgen.sh | 17 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | makerelease | 3 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | upload | 6 |
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/indexgen.sh b/indexgen.sh index db036cbe..9416d5fb 100755 --- a/indexgen.sh +++ b/indexgen.sh @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ # # indexgen.sh -- generate current version of fetchmail home page. # -goldvers="5.0.0" -goldname="5.0.0" +goldvers="5.1.0" +goldname="5.1.0" version=`sed -n <Makefile.in "/VERSION *= */s/VERSION *= *\([^ ]*\)/\1/p"` date=`date "+%d %b %Y"` @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ reason.<P> <H1>Who uses fetchmail:</H1> -Fetchmail entered full production status with the 2.0 version in +Fetchmail entered full production status with the 2.0.0 version in November 1996 after about five months of evolution from the ancestral <IT>popclient</IT> utility. It has since come into extremely wide use in the Internet/Unix/Linux community. The Red Hat, Debian and @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ customer base, and (c) the volume of fetchmail-related talk on USENET. These estimates suggest that daily fetchmail users number well into the tens of thousands, and possibly over a hundred thousand.<p> -<H1>The fetchmail paper:</H1> +<H1>The sociology of fetchmail:</H1> The fetchmail development project was a sociological experiment as well as a technical effort. I ran it as a test of some theories about why the @@ -225,9 +225,14 @@ Linux development model works.<P> I wrote a paper, <A HREF="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/">The Cathedral And The Bazaar</A>, about these theories and the project. -The paper became quite popular and (to my continuing astonishment) may +I developed the line of analysis it suggested in two later essays. +These papers became quite popular and (to my continuing astonishment) may have actually helped change the world. Chase the title link, above, -to its page.<P> +for links to all three papers.<P> + +I have done some analysus on the information in the project NEWS file. +You can view a <a href="history.html">statistical history</a> showing +levels of participation and release frequency over time.<p> <H1>Recent releases and where fetchmail is going:</H1> diff --git a/makerelease b/makerelease index 7138d51c..7a97c280 100755 --- a/makerelease +++ b/makerelease @@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ unlink("DIFFS.$$"); print "Building index page...\n"; system("rm -f index.html; indexgen.sh"); +print "Making activity graph..." +growthplot + print "Done\n"; # makerelease ends here @@ -19,11 +19,17 @@ put fetchmail-features.html put NEWS put fetchmail-man.html put design-notes.html +# The following things vary seldom #put funny.html #put fetchmail.png #put bighand.png +put growth.gif +put timeseries +put growthplot +# The following things vary often put checksums put index.html +put history.html close echo "Upload to tuxedo complete" |