From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 17 07:35:19 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2FC816A41F for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:35:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5EA43D45 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:35:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 3466B690; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:35:18 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:35:18 -0500 To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20050817073518.GA8518@soaustin.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) Cc: Subject: [headsup] new article: How To Choose The Version Of FreeBSD That Is Right For You X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:35:19 -0000 As a result of the recent thread on Quality of FreeBSD, which seemed to strongly imply that some of our users don't understand how our development proceeds, I have written and committed the above article to try to address that information gap. Unlike some of my other documentation work, since it involved (to some degree) speaking for the Project as a whole, I submitted it and had it reviewed by core@, re@, and secteam@ directly rather than through the normal doc channels. I hope this doesn't ruffle too many feathers; I think the work is worth it to try to head off as many of these threads as possible ... But a question that remains is, should this article have a link from the front page? I know that this would affect the work being done to redesign that and I do not wish to work at cross-purposes with that. My opinion (obviously) is that it should, as it seems to be one of these "start here" kinds of things. But having said that I'll step back and let other discussion occur. mcl