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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA00840 for <executor@nacm.com>; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 08:24:56 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id JAA26649 for nacm.com!executor; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 09:24:55 -0600 Received: from beaut.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0sT9pI-000YbmC; Tue, 4 Jul 95 09:23 MDT Received: by beaut.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0sT9pH-00000BC; Tue, 4 Jul 95 09:23 MDT Message-Id: <m0sT9pH-00000BC@beaut.ardi.com> Date: Tue, 4 Jul 95 09:23 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews) To: executor@nacm.com Subject: ARD > 3 guys Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk Hi folks, Thanks for all the praise. Most ARDI employees have had to sacrifice a lot in the last few years. Since we've required extra support from family members who don't necessarily follow the computer industry, much less emulation issues, the praise is especially appreciated -- it suggests we're doing something right. The better we do our job, the harder it is for people who aren't systems level programmers to understand the complexity of our job. However, I think I've left you with a mistaken impression. Although there currently are only three people doing the *development* of 1.99n, ARDI is more than just the engineers. In addition to Mat Hostetter, Cotton Seed and myself, who are the three engineers currently working on 1.99n, we usually also have help from engineer Bill Goldman, but he's volunteered to take an extended leave without pay since our revenues are less than we had hoped. In addition to Bill's usual presence, we also have Vaune Fischer doing full-time technical support for us and Melissa Algeo as our on-line services liason. We also have a good attorney and good CPA, and employ or contract additional others to do our bidding. So although there were three engineers who were in the critical path for releasing 1.99n, that by no means should diminish the important work other ARDI employees are doing. As our Linux users may remember, 1.99m had some permission problems. We've fixed those in two different ways -- our install procedure explicitly makes the appropriate directory writable and our Browser no longer dies if it can't write its save files. However, the 1.99m fiasco pointed out that we have to spend a little time shaking down the final package, even though we've already spent some time testing the final binaries. I need to spend an hour or less reviewing our configuration files, then I'll start the final package shakedown for E/L. *If* nothing more surprising is found, E/L 1.99n could be out early afternoon (its 9:30am now). E/L will be released before E/D because, unlike E/D 1.99n, we don't have to squash E/L 1.99n to fit on two HD floppies. --Cliff ctm@ardi.com 
