[Termtools] Termination competition update

[Simon Bailey]

Dear all,

Douglas Adams stated that the best thing about milestones is the sound  
they make as they go whooshing by. In this case, it's not that bad.  
The milestone was set for the 9th, and today is the 10th. We will  
start a test run of the new competition during the course of the  
afternoon. This will hopefully show us that there are no bugs in the  
system, but I doubt that.

We suggest that we post regular updates to the mailing list as the  
results start coming in from the competition and  then go into a test  
phase to make sure that some of the extra functionality (i.e.  
submitting single tests) discussed in leipzig works as planned. A  
short period at the beginning of this test phase will be limited to  
Innsbruck, after which we will invite the community to test the system.

As yet, we have no definite timeframe for the test phase, as we're not  
sure how long it will take for the competition to run completely. My  
current estimate however, is that we can start the test phase next week.

If you have any technical questions, feel free to contact me.

Regards,
sb and the innsbruck termcomp managers.

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Simon Bailey
Systems Administrator
Institut fuer Informatik
Universitaet Innsbruck
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