FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: ZIGLIO Frediano [mailto:Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com]
> Sent: August 4, 2003 6:33 AM
> To: FreeTDS Development Group
> Subject: RE: [freetds] Announcement: 0.61.2
>
> > The wesite was refreshed from CVS.  I don't know if it should 
> > be added to the source distribution; at present it is not.  I 
> > hope that by placing it in CVS it will be easier for people 
> > to update the website pages, leaving it to me to update the 
> > site itself asynchronously.  
> > 
> 
> Very good. I saw which_api.html is also in web directory. Good too!

Glad you like.  I'll add it to the faq, too.  

> I agree with the idea to leave tds.html in its place.
> Some note on web:
> - does we still support JDBC driver ??

Not really.  We probably just need links to their site and ML.  

> - a link to main SF project page is useful
> - a link to http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/ directory in
> download page is also useful

Agreed.  

> Another issue (not web related) is copyright of sources....
> We have sources with lines such as
>  * Copyright (C) 1998-1999  Brian Bruns
> I know we can just replace these lines with
>  * Copyright (C) 1998-2003  Brian Bruns
> but I don't know it's the right way (I don't think Brian 
> complains about it however...).

GNU recommends that each year appear in the copyright (1998, 1999, 2000,
etc.)  I think we should tack on a new year whenever we notice that it's out
of date.  Maybe I'll add something more-or-less automatic to my commit
script....

New work belongs to the author.  Extensive additional work warrants adding a
name to the copyright.  

Something nonlegal we don't do well: we don't have a THANKS file.  We get
patches from people who don't contribute regularly, and our only
acknowledgment is (maybe) in the ChangeLog, which may get truncated from
time to time.  

--jkl
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