From 6bb76bb17d0ab9987afac788362ea001cba406d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:26:11 +0000 Subject: Ready for upload. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2603 --- indexgen.sh | 17 +++++++++++------ makerelease | 3 +++ 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

Who uses fetchmail:

-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 popclient 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.

-

The fetchmail paper:

+

The sociology of fetchmail:

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.

I wrote a paper, The Cathedral And The Bazaar, 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.

+for links to all three papers.

+ +I have done some analysus on the information in the project NEWS file. +You can view a statistical history showing +levels of participation and release frequency over time.

Recent releases and where fetchmail is going:

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 diff --git a/upload b/upload index bf4e3321..acc12492 100755 --- a/upload +++ b/upload @@ -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" -- cgit v1.2.3