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Get ready for our 1st release!

From: Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Get ready for our 1st release!
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:42:06 +1000
Organization: The SXEmacs Project
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The next XEmacs 21.4 release (21.4.16) is imminent.  It'll come any
day now.  This is the release I want to fork!

So.

I'll work my cute little butt off with the PPM.  And in the meantime,
here's what I'd like you guys to do...

  - Logo.  We need xpm icons and a new sexy splash screen.  And I am
    absolutely crap at artsie fartsie type things.

    The art needs to be sexy, but not pornographic (put your pr0n
    away, hrop).  My only stipulation is...

        a) Ben Wing's name is _NOT_ on the splash screen.
        b) My name is. [1]

  - A global search and replace on "XEmacs" to "SXEmacs" and "xemacs"
    to "sxemacs".  And so we don't have to rewrite every scrape of
    lisp code on the planet... SXEmacs _*MUST*_ provide both `xemacs'
    and `sxemacs'.

    Both of these need to return `t'...

        (featurep 'xemacs)
        (featurep 'sxemacs)

  - A list of code names.  Think of a general topic and see if you can
    come up with 2 or 3 words relating to the topic for each letter of
    the alphabet.

  - Somebody to knock up a half decent web page for us (using the new
    sexy logos). [2]

Basically, SXEmacs 22.1.0 will just be XEmacs 21.4.16 with a new
splash screen, logos and name.

The time-frame? Simple.  As soon as possible after these 3 events... 

        a) XEmacs 21.4.16 is released
        b) The PPM is completed as much as possible.
        c) The issue tracking is in place.

Oh, I feel so "managerial" :-)

Have fun, and keep sexy!!

Footnotes: 
[1]  I'm not 100% sure if this would be the right thing to do.  If you
     have an objection please say so.

[2]  Johann, I'm happy to host www here.  Can you point
     www.sxemacs.org to youngs.au.com?  And possibly give me a hand
     with Apache so http://www.sxemacs.org/index.html doesn't display
     http://youngs.au.com/index.html (if you know what I mean)

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