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Date:      Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:17:06 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Perennial suggestion to split freebsd-stable into version-specific lists
Message-ID:  <4A99C502.4060102@FreeBSD.org>

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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

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