From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 30 00:17:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 998D1106566C for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:17:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F68B8FC17 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:17:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 16638 invoked by uid 399); 30 Aug 2009 00:17:13 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 30 Aug 2009 00:17:13 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4A99C502.4060102@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:17:06 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090822) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Perennial suggestion to split freebsd-stable into version-specific lists X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:17:17 -0000 Howdy, I make this suggestion every time there is a new major release coming, maybe this time will be the one! :) One could argue that with the 2 active stable branches that we have now the freebsd-stable@ mailing list is already quite confusing. Adding a third (8-STABLE) will make it much more so (arguably confusion to the third power instead of just confusion squared), for a lot of reasons that I think are probably obvious. Thus, my suggestion. Split what is currently freebsd-stable into one list per branch. This year I even have a better suggestion for the names, freebsd-6@, freebsd-7@, and freebsd-8@. After the flag day mail sent to the existing -stable list can get an auto-reply explaining the new world order. What do you think? Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection