[GNU Herds]: Milestone 23-12-2006

[Martin Mielke]

Dear Richard, dear all,

the main reason for this email is to get some feedback from you, since it has been a long time since you emailed us for the last time. 

We are aware of the fact that you are busy with the pre-testing of Emacs 22. Maybe it could be a good idea to delegate this minor task of cheking GNU Herds to someone else you fully trust.


Anyway, these are the steps we are going to carry on with L
et us know if you disagree:

  1.- Pre-Test

  2.- Announce - just to get feedback and help, without going live

  3.- Go live, still on beta stage, with:
       * All the certifications disabled, as the GNU Business Network, etc.
       * As we do not have the resources to carry out manual
         checks, we will go without it.


Manual checks which the FSF could support:
 * Check user warnings about JobOffers or Entities.
 * Check each job offer before being posted or   check entities only each year and enable it to post.


The demo and production-ready sites are available under:

  http://www.gnuherds.org/

The data stored  on 
www.gnuhers.org will not be deleted anymore. A remote and encrypted backup copy will be kept.


As an ongoing task, we are yet looking for a better host which could offer us, among others:

          * better bandwidth/throughput
          * secured user data
          * email and mailman services


Please let us know your comments.


Best regards
Martin