I Blame Bounces For The Delay

I was going to release Lamson 0.9.6 much earlier than this, but as I worked on the bounce detection feature, I realized that if I just wrote that and a few other cleanups and features, I’d actually have a 1.0pre1 candidate on my hands instead of a 0.9.6 release.

Instead of releasing 0.9.6, I continued to work on librelist.com and got the software smart as hell. While working on librelist.com I managed to improve Lamson to the point where I’ll be comfortable releasing a 1.0pre1 tomorrow.

What’s librelist.com?

If you go librelist.com you can read about it, although the site is still rough and being written. It actually does function however, including basic archives.

For people too lazy to click on the link: librelist.com is just a free mailing list service for open source projects, similar to freenode.org with IRC. The primary purpose is to give open source projects a mailing list they can use that has:

Try The Lists

I’ll have an announcement tomorrow laying out the big things you’ll get, but for now if you want to track Lamson and participate, as well as test the librelist.com code, then try subscribing to lamson@librelist.com and saying hello.

If you’re interested in librelist.com development, then subscribe to meta@librelist.com and I’ll be sending out announcements related to librelist there.

The Lamson 1.0pre1 Plan

I haven’t needed to touch Lamson much over the last few days, apart from some surgery on the Python Maildir class to add a safety feature. The code currently in bzr is also very stable and has been sped up a bit. I’m looking to basically spend tomorrow auditing the code and writing docs with the goal of pushing out a release in the evening.

The goal then will be to make it solid and not add many more features so that I can get a 1.0 release out for real by the end of July.

See you tomorrow!