From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 21 11:38:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA21945 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:38:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from o-o.org (o-o.org [207.252.201.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA21938 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:38:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by o-o.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA11164; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:37:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:37:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Licia To: Mike Smith cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a mailing list for applications developers? In-Reply-To: <199810211838.LAA01199@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hmm good idea, thank you :) (running off to find people doing this kind of development :) ) On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Thank you for your reply :) I was thinking though, more of a > > mailing list for people developing such things under/for FreeBSD > > to 'network', share insights into the api's available, ideas regarding > > the interfaces, etc :) Sort of like hackers seems to be used for people > > developing the OS itself :) > > Hmm. Most of this already happens on -hackers, but that gets a bit > noisy at times. > > There was some discussion of a commercial@freebsd.org for this sort of > purpose (also for people to notify commercial developers of surprising > changes coming up), but I don't recall if it ever got off the ground. > > If you think there's a need for this (you might want to talk to a few > other developers and gather some support) then there'd be no trouble > creating it I expect. > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com [ licia@o-o.org ] [ http://www.o-o.org/ ] [ IrcNick : Licia ] [ A happy user of FreeBSD : http://www.freebsd.org/ ] [ Why crawl through windows when you can walk through a door? ] [ This user boycotts all Microsoft products and services ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message