Re: 7.4 Press Release -- Draft #3

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 20:45, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Robert Treat wrote:
>
> > A couple of people have asked about this so let me expand on this
> > ambiguous note. There a couple of folks, led by Andrew Sullivan, who are
> > looking at releasing the replication code first used by Afilias, Inc
> > (the folks running the .org/.info domains). I should point out that it
> > is not the latest and greatest version of the code, and that it is not
> > as good as what you would get if you were to purchase the commercial
> > version of ERServer (at least that's what I've been told), but it has
> > been tested in an enterprise level setting so would cover a lot of
> > ground in the replication arena if it were to be included. I want to
> > stress that as of now there is nothing in CVS, so as far as we're
> > concerned, it's all vaporware. If they do get it in we'll we can rework
> > the press release, but until then it's best to proceed with things as
> > planned.
>
> eRServer v1.0 is going to be released open source (we wanted to do so
> before I went on holidays, but we have a bit of docs work to do up) ...
> but, it won't be included *in* the distribution itself, but as a seperate
> package ...
>

The discussion seemed to be leaning toward contrib rather than gborg,
has a decision swung the other way?


Robert Treat
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