Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 15:00:11 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: opentrax@email.com Cc: des@ofug.org, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: retiring kernfs Message-ID: <20001221150009.A19572@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200012212250.OAA19327@spammie.svbug.com>; from opentrax@email.com on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:50:21PM -0800 References: <xzpvgsol36m.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200012212250.OAA19327@spammie.svbug.com>
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* opentrax@email.com <opentrax@email.com> [001221 14:50] wrote: > DES, > I've been consider you proposal from the prospective of > Legacy maintainer/developers. One of the issue dealt with at > SVBUG is "Legacy". > > Personally, I don't use kernfs. I don't know of anyone > that uses it. And I think people would be well advised to > move on. > > However, Legacy is one of those things that cannot be > ignored. My recommendation is to have a section on the > website that specifically points out that items, such > as this, are not "Retired". Such an informational page > would help people with questions about "what happened?" > and it would help people that believe that they really, > really, really need it. > > If it would be helpful, I could help design such a page. > If not, you have my opinion. Actually, building on that idea, it would be really cool to have an app that would allow us to generate changelog type messages that would automagically get submitted to a newspage. Although each submittion would need approval. This would allow us to announce deprication of interfaces as well as new features. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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