I responded to Roberto's e-mail in private, as well. Yes, we need to
work harder to communicate.
One problem we faced this week, though, was that we were asked to keep
the information we were getting in regard to 4.2, a later 4.3 (which
is really a minor update), and the eventual fate of ACS Tcl at aD (NOT
HERE) uber-confidential.
I won't get into a public discussion as to whether or not keeping
information on the future of ACS Tcl at aD confidential is smart on
aD's part or not. It's not our (OpenACS) call, it's theirs.
Many of you probably noticed a couple of web/db threads where that
future was discussed somewhat openly by aD'ers as well as other folks
in the community. Jon Griffin started that thread, and by coincidence
it was a couple of days after the "confidential" threads and
discussions between aD and a couple of OpenACS folks and aD partners
began (I was included under both hats due to the fact that I do some
consulting for furfly).
So it was a personally confusing and frustrating week.
That's not a good excuse for our not communicating better, we could've
at least said "we're talking to aD about 4.2 beta and future versions
but have been asked not to discuss things publicly". Probably
wouldn't've made most folks here happy but, again, keeping things
quiet is/was aD's call.
I'll be out of town from Wednesday afternoon (21st) to Tuesday
afternoon (27th) for a brief vacation. Before leaving I'll e-mail
those who've offered to help port modules to get some discussion going
regarding who will do what, and what kind of help folks will want.
I also expect to get my changes to the bootstrap loader (to load the
right datamodels) committed to the CVS tree before leaving. Dan
Wickstrom's committed his first cut at porting the datamodel to the tree.
And ... anonymous checkout via the pserver now works, as of last night
(Janine Sisk confirmed this after Ben fixed it). If you want to take
a look at the work Dan's done this far, grab a copy. There's a new
"postgresql" directory under the package "sql" directory for the
pieces he's got loading (the oracle datamodel will be moving shortly
to "sql/oracle", too).
Take a look. Feedback's always welcome...
