In general I like the release early, release often model. WRT helping
I'm afraid that ATM I won't be able to do more than help with checking
an RC.

Gary

On Oct 6, 2013, at 10:27, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> we've already had users asking for a new release - in particular because
> of 7z support.
>
> From the top of my head there are two things I'd like to address before
> the release and one that would be nice but I know I won't find time to
> look into.
>
> Should go into the release:
>
> * support for writing compressed 7z archives.  In particular I'd love to
>  have SevenZOutputFile default to LZMA2 compression with the release.
>
> * look into and potentially fix date and permission handling issues in
>  arj.
>
>  I've created a test arj archive on Linux and Compress doesn't read the
>  date properly.  It is quite possible the Unix versions of arj create
>  different date fields and I want to look into the Open Source C arj
>  implementation to figure out what's up - same for permissions, which
>  I've only added because I saw the Linux version supported them.
>
> Nice to have:
>
> * decompression support in arj.  I'm afraid this takes quite a bit of
>  effort.
>
> If you have anything to add, please do.  Also, if you want to look into
> the new APIs for LZMA, arj or 7z before the release when we might change
> it without fear of breaking anything, please do so soon.  Real world
> tests of the new code against existing files would be great as well.
>
> The amount of time I have at hand (as well as my enthusiasm, TBH) comes
> in unpredictable bursts, so I can't give a timeframe for the release.
> Helpings hands are more than welcome :-)
>
> Stefan
>
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