[Lina-dev] Lina Site Resources

[Nile Geisinger]

Hi everyone,

This list has been a bit quiet lately. We've been handling traffic on 
the forum and working on bugs discovered from the Open Source release of 
LINA.

When we released LINA's source code, we also put up several resources 
for the community. There is now:

    * a GIT repository <http://openlina.org/wiki/index.php/Using_Git>
    * a RoadMap <http://www.openlina.org/roadmap.html>
    * User and developer forums <http://openlina.org/forum/>
    * Bug Database <http://openlina.org/bugzilla/>
    * Wikis <http://openlina.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page>
    * Technoloy Overview <http://www.openlina.org/technology.html>
    * Howtos <http://www.openlina.org/howtos.html>

The Roadmap enables members of the community to track releases and 
participate in the direction of LINA. Each release is on a short two to 
three week development schedule. The next three releases are:

    * Release 0.71 <http://www.openlina.org/roadmap.html> - fixing build
      bugs on different platforms, adding checkpoints during the build,
      and fixing a few remaining bugs from our transition to native
      Windows binaries
    * Release 0.72 <http://www.openlina.org/roadmap.html> - improving
      the tools used by developers to create LINA packages (we can make
      them radically simpler - essentially automatic - if we make them a
      smarter in analyzing installs).
    * Release 0.73 <http://www.openlina.org/roadmap.html> - a subset of
      the LINA APIs and developer binaries for easy installs on Windows,
      Mac OS X, and Linux

0.71 is important because it means that we've nailed all of the bugs 
remaining from our re-org and LINA is guaranteed to compile on every 
platform. 0.72 is the point at which it should become very easy to make 
LINA binaries.

Of all three releases, 0.73 is the most critical - it’s the point at 
which we will have LINA to a state that the larger Open Source community 
can easily use LINA and universal LINA binaries.

The development team is going to start communicating more through this 
list, so traffic should start to pick up. Thanks to everyone who is 
participating so far - we're working hard to get 0.71 out in the next 
two weeks.

warm regards,

Nile