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ColinPitrat / caprice32

An emulator of the Amstrad CPC 8bit home computer range.
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Announce Caprice32 V4.6.0 and news on sourceforge board. #156

Open zackizacki opened 4 years ago

zackizacki commented 4 years ago

It's a pitty that the caprice32 project is recognized as dead on sourceforge. And they still download the 15 year old version (4.2.0) 29 times per week. Announcing new versions and activities there on the discussion board could maybe invite more people for participation. Maybe people would have more time now during the current "public program" so maybe there could be more contributions and feedback as well?

zackizacki commented 4 years ago

Do we have some more detailed release notes with last changes for 4.6.0?

ColinPitrat commented 4 years ago

I updated the release notes:

ColinPitrat commented 4 years ago

Note that I already posted something 3 years ago: image

zackizacki commented 4 years ago

Yes, I've seen it, very good! But 3 years is a long time and there are no indications in the message that there are new release ready for download on github.

Did you try to contact Uwe, the original author? Maybe finally he is happy, or at least ok with this github fork and he will support/promote it on "his site" also more officially?

ColinPitrat commented 4 years ago

I contacted the original author and he supports the fork but was unable to update sourceforge (I suppose because he lost his credentials).

zackizacki commented 4 years ago

What?? Really? :-) This is a solvable little problem maybe via sourceforge service. Here it is: https://sourceforge.net/auth/recovery_support I'm trying to find his email address to contact him, maybe we can get his account recovered so that some updates maybe with the release notes can be done there.

ColinPitrat commented 4 years ago

I'm not sure it's the reason, that's what I supposes as the account was more than 10 years old already. I didn't insist. I'll ask him again.

ColinPitrat commented 4 years ago

Ulrich added a message in the project summary: image

zackizacki commented 4 years ago

That is really cool and very generous from ulrich to have that statement standing there! I'll write him a thank you mail.

So, now it is more legitimate and still also useful to announce new releases with release notes maybe on the discussion board there? What do you think? I think investments in release announcements do pay off as the project does live from public attention at least to a certain degree. But, we can close the ticket as well without that.

ColinPitrat commented 4 years ago

Yes, that's an excellent idea. I announced some release (I don't remember which one) in a few places but I don't do it regularly. I'm a bit too lazy to do it but if you want to post some announces somewhere, you're more than welcome!

We could document (in RELEASING.md) a few places where announcement can be done and prepare some kind of template message (to be filled with release specific) to be posted.