From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 1 13:37:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE5B16A4CE for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 13:37:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from tx0.oucs.ox.ac.uk (tx0.oucs.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82DB843FCB for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 13:36:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from scan0.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.162] helo=localhost) by tx0.oucs.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AG3QY-0003rr-EY for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:36:58 +0000 Received: from rx0.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.161]) by localhost (scan0.oucs.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.162]) (amavisd-new, port 25) with ESMTP id 14376-10 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 21:36:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.161.253]) by rx0.oucs.ox.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AG3QY-0003ro-1A for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:36:58 +0000 Received: (qmail 14438 invoked by uid 0); 1 Nov 2003 21:36:58 -0000 Received: from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk by gateway by uid 71 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (sweep: 2.14/3.71. spamassassin: 2.53. Clear:. Processed in 1.43592 secs); 01 Nov 2003 21:36:58 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk via gateway X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.16 (Clear:. Processed in 1.43592 secs) Received: from dhcp1131.wadham.ox.ac.uk (HELO piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk) (163.1.161.131) by gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk with SMTP; 1 Nov 2003 21:36:56 -0000 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.1.20031101212955.0325cba0@popserver.sfu.ca> X-Sender: cperciva@popserver.sfu.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:36:23 +0000 To: "Daniel M. Kurry" From: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <20031101203313.GF33954@over-yonder.net> References: <5.0.2.1.1.20031101122917.03141b78@popserver.sfu.ca> <5.0.2.1.1.20031101122917.03141b78@popserver.sfu.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-related-announcements list? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:37:01 -0000 At 14:33 01/11/2003 -0600, Daniel M. Kurry wrote: >Colin Percival said something like: > > Just a wild idea here: It seems to me that there is a need for an > > announcements list for items related to, but not part of, the FreeBSD > > project. > >What problem do you percieve with subscribing to list updates >individually? I'm not talking about regular announcements for well-established projects; I'm talking about new projects, or small projects which don't have their own mailing lists. You can't subscribe to a mailing list for a project until you know the project exists. To take FreeBSD Update as an example, I decided that -binup and -stable were probably the two most relevant lists, but there are lots of people who don't read those lists yet (later, after they heard about FreeBSD Update) said they wished they had seen the original announcement. There's a wide community of projects which are related to FreeBSD, but since these aren't part of The FreeBSD Project itself, they tend to be less well known than ideal. Colin Percival