This Week in SMGL (Nov. 19th 2007)

Welcome to another edition of This Week in SMGL. I want to mention that this week is Thanksgiving in the States. Mage Power will be posting another interview next week. This time, Grimoire Lead Eric Sandall will be interviewed.

Juan Carlos G. Torres (Jucato) has been busy writing documents again. He has been working on describing Sorcery and Cast recently. Next on his list is dispel. If you are new to Source Mage, the documents provide a good explanation of each component.

A new ISO has been built for testing by Justin "flux_control" Boffemmyer. This is great news! It is very good to see new action happening on the ISO front. Flux has passed it on to Cauldron Lead BearPerson now. More to come when information becomes available!

Jaka "lynx" Kranjc sent in some news that I would like to include to finish off this week's activity.
"My last week was pretty fruitful. Most of the action concentrated in the middle of the week and on the grimoire QA - I fixed a bunch of bugs and resolved all the pending integrations. As a result, a new minor stable was released and the next stable will be more true to it's name. The standard stable-rc testing procedure followed, but only Eric Sandall, George Sherwood and Mathieu Lonjaret helped, which is a shame. Not only is the Grimoire team the biggest, but also this stable-rc ritual is pretty trivial and requires more involvement only when bugfixing. The initial and constant part is just about checking if spells on the list have any known (severe) bugs and doing a sorcery rebuild with the stable-rc (chroot saves). Fixing any of the known bugs is of course much welcome, but that initial part is as important.

Sorcery and Quill received some minor attention too. The latter just a bugfix, the former a few more. Among others, confmeld now has a man page and some more investigation was done on the "transaction commit failed" bug."

This concludes this week's edition. See you next week and have a Happy Thanksgiving!