From owner-ctm-announce Wed Jan 26 16:59:30 2000 Delivered-To: ctm-announce@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 155AC15471 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:59:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA49629 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:59:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:59:17 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: ctm-announce@freebsd.org Subject: adding/dropping Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ctm-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I'm looking at the fact that 4.0 is coming out pretty quickly, and that I might be asked to provide a src-4 ctm list. Seeing as the machine is pretty busy, I am wondering if maybe, on the same day I add a src-4 list, I could maybe drop support for 2.2. Let me show you guys the timing of updates that have occurred as far back as September 99: -rw-r--r-- 1 library library 298789 Sep 6 00:47 src-2.2.1011.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 library library 12103 Oct 11 00:58 src-2.2.1012.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 library library 71956 Oct 25 00:37 src-2.2.1013.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 library library 744 Nov 1 04:43 src-2.2.1014.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 library library 4262 Nov 9 01:27 src-2.2.1015.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 library library 363 Nov 14 17:18 src-2.2.1016.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 library library 355 Nov 28 17:21 src-2.2.1017.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 library library 341 Dec 5 17:16 src-2.2.1018.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 library library 714 Dec 12 17:18 src-2.2.1019.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 library library 342 Jan 2 17:31 src-2.2.1020.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 library library 486 Jan 9 17:32 src-2.2.1021.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 library library 703 Jan 19 19:27 src-2.2.1022.gz As you can see, action on 2.2 really has dropped off. I'm wondering if folks might be better served if, when I have to add src-4 (it's not yet) I dropped support for src-2.2? I am able, short term, to add another list without really running short of memory, but not the processing time keeping the new list going (without more hardware). What I propose is this: If I get a lot of shouts here in the new few days (mails to me directly guys, I think no one needs extra mails) then I will keep 2.2 going on a once a month basis for 6 more months. Once a month, I will just have to let other lists suffer a bit. If I don't hear from a number of 2.2 addicts within a week, I don't think I'll even go that far; I would just kill the 2.2 list when I have to start the 4 one. Does this sound fair to you guys? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe ctm-announce" in the body of the message