From 7c9554e8c51a1e18931ad65d54f4e2cd58c66724 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Beckingham Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 22:00:19 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] - Modified AUTHORS file. - Added announcement.txt file for the mailing list. --- AUTHORS | 1 - announcement.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 announcement.txt diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS index 61862f6c1..4f6a1697e 100644 --- a/AUTHORS +++ b/AUTHORS @@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ Principal Author Contributing Authors -Testers diff --git a/announcement.txt b/announcement.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ead6cc895 --- /dev/null +++ b/announcement.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Some considerable time ago - longer than I had hoped - I demonstrated an +alternate implementation of the todo script, called task, in the form of a +YouTube movie: + + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l68LCl6BYvs + +A lot has happened since then, and the task program has been slowly improving +thanks to feedback from some early testers, and continuous use by me. Today, +I have uploaded a new movie: + + http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=???????????? + +This movie includes most of the changes and improvements to task, but behind +the scenes are the biggest changes. There was a rewrite of the underlying +storage mechanism yielding a clean API for the front end, and the code was +reviewed for portability and converted to use GNU autoconf/automake. + +Task has been released under GPL, and so far has been tested on: + + Max OS X 10.4 (Tiger) + Max OS X 10.5 (Leopard) + Fedora 8 + Fedora 9 + Ubuntu 8 (Hardy Heron) + +Task has been making me more organized and productive for some time now. +Perhaps some of you might find it useful, and I welcom feedback of all kinds. + +You can find the task source code at: + + http://www.beckingham.net/task-1.0.0.tar.gz + +Thank you. +Paul Beckingham +