[Aide] AIDE release roadmap

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:30:58AM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:
> > It's very good to see aide being developed again. I know how hard it
> > is to judge development time, but I'd like to know what your plans are
> > for future aide 0.11 release candidates and later the actual 0.11
> > release.
> 
> I am trying to get the large file support to work under HP-UX before 
> releasing 0.11-rc2. That should take about 1 week. After that it depends 
> if there are any issues with that release before it can become the final 
> 0.11.

That doesn't sound too hard.

> > Is it wise to putt 0.11rc into Debian experimental, or will I have to
> > fight with 0.10 in unstable, testing and stable for months until 0.11
> > is finally released and thus suitable for Debian unstable and testin?
> 
> I would expect the final 0.11 release to be out within 1 month from now.

Great, good news.

> One issue reported by Michael Schwendt (package maintainer of aide in 
> Fedora Extras) is that the i18n/gettext part of aide which includes an 
> old Russian translation is broken. This needs to be resolved before 
> releasing 0.11. Since the original translator is no longer available, I 
> am tempted to get rid of the internationalization, and just go with English.

Do you want me to ask the Debian translation team for Russian for
help? I suppose they would be willing to help upstream translation
since they don't have to do the work in Debian than.

> If anyone is willing to help out, especially with automake/autoconf 
> magic, please step forward. The right way to do that is to join the 
> aide-devel list at 
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aide-devel and drop us a 
> line there.

I have subscribed, but my programming skills are not that good. I'll
probably be only a lurker. Where do you want threads concerned with
Debian packaging of aide? Here, or on -devel?

Greetings
Marc

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