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authorVictor Lowther <victor.lowther@gmail.com>2008-03-30 10:42:44 -0500
committerVictor Lowther <victor.lowther@gmail.com>2008-03-30 10:42:44 -0500
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Updated NEWS file to include changes to the pm-utils project.
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-There have been many changes to pm-utils since the last release of
-0.99.4.
+There have been many changes to pm-utils since the release of 0.99.4.
Major changes include:
@@ -41,6 +40,31 @@ Major changes include:
quirk handling needs.
In addition to these major changes, there have been a whole slew of
-minor changes and bugfixes. Most of the major pm-utils related bugs
-that the distributions have encountered have been fixed in this
+minor changes and bugfixes. Most of the pm-utils related bugs that
+the distributions have encountered have been fixed in this
release. Please see the ChangeLog for more details.
+
+There have also been major changes in the pm-utils project:
+
+* Richard Hughes assumed maintainership of the project after a long
+ period of inactivity by Peter Jones. Richard then transitioned the
+ project from using CVS to using git as the version control system,
+ and opened the floor to several new contributors.
+
+* Victor Lowther rewrote all the scripts to be POSIX compliant, added
+ the modular sleep backends, added the new debugging features, and
+ did lots of code cleanups and bug fixes. If you find a bug, it is
+ probably his fault.
+
+* Michael Biebl improved the PMU support and caught most of the bugs
+ that Victor did not catch.
+
+* Till Maas improved the locking code through clever use of noclobber.
+
+* Dan Nicholson cleaned up our use of autotools, and added pkg-config
+ support.
+
+* pm-utils now uses git as it source-control repository. You can
+ browse the code at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pm-utils/, and
+
+