Re: [announcement] SME/Alpha V5.5 to be orphaned 31 Dec 2003

Thank you for your hard work Robert.

Robert van den Aker wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> It is not viable for me to continue to (unofficially) support SME/Alpha
> V5.5 after 31 December 2003, the day that Red Hat ceases support for RHL
> 7.2, on which SME/Alpha V5.5 is based. It may be possible for me to
> provide updates after that date by way of the Fedora Legacy project, but 
> there really is no guarantee of that and therefore I cannot recommend that 
> anyone continue to use SME/Alpha V5.5 after December 31 2003. If anyone 
> thinks they can offer continued support, they're welcome to take over the 
> project, otherwise the project will be buried on Jan 1 2004.
> 
> I want to take this opportunity to thank a few people:
> 
> - The e-smith/SME Server developers for designing their distribution in a
> modular, architecture-independent way, which made it easy to build Alpha 
> versions.
> - Charlie Brady and Gordon Rowell for their help in getting the iso's onto 
> the ftp server.
> - The SME/Alpha users for their feedback, particularly Chaloner Hale for
> his many bug reports and his tireless help in getting SME/Alpha V5.5 ready
> for release, and Petri Makinen for testdriving the first version, 4.1.2,
> and sending me the SRPMS of later SME releases, which I didn't have the
> bandwidth to download myself.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Robert van den Aker
> 
> 
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