From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 30 16:45:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C8651065676 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:45:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cmdlnkid@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f227.google.com (mail-gx0-f227.google.com [209.85.217.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E39E68FC16 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:45:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk27 with SMTP id 27so4418250gxk.12 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:45:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :in-reply-to:message-id:references:user-agent:x-openpgp-key-id :x-openpgp-key-fingerprint:mime-version:content-type; bh=bSB0hCt/bPIKKIsIEKJEyjDr/YA9e2awclj5E7btqHA=; b=wxs3ZADRTOqns7t4AvmE36+Sb0OKJazJ8smhLVWHG2GRieqQ2HfnNQAlMj97eZr+hN BinuYgszMEkUU+8hIzUu1P4hHkyEwl27KjxCd1zXr/Vn08NsZjPcUSbnsqrRDqSL51aI gfDVIZcw8ITB+m5dZAVZ9m3sUwDBJ0KIVrrb8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references :user-agent:x-openpgp-key-id:x-openpgp-key-fingerprint:mime-version :content-type; b=WEMOcfqOOJYnrIdZ27Wq5iQb6cifdatNqt8YootAav2T0DFfIoAohMHuglYAFnmZ4j G9YX7Go0PrjzhmWaL2czrYxiSZ8p3vFvuMb7347nxaITyo6X2D7Ue3ZMNv1+jd2/BELI RS2flsZLM+68PsC7TL8seG5veROb7Bj05f2jE= Received: by 10.90.173.8 with SMTP id v8mr3151207age.98.1251650711089; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:45:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from firewall.5p.local (adsl-99-190-86-144.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net [99.190.86.144]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm4656163agd.32.2009.08.30.09.45.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:45:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:45:03 -0400 From: CmdLnKid To: Doug Barton In-Reply-To: <4A99C502.4060102@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: References: <4A99C502.4060102@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 0xDFFDD218 X-OpenPGP-Key-Fingerprint: 2924 1C72 A6C2 852A 2094 25EE 9968 2636 DFFD D218 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Perennial suggestion to split freebsd-stable into version-specific lists X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:45:12 -0000 On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:17 -0000, dougb wrote: > Howdy, > > I make this suggestion every time there is a new major release coming, > maybe this time will be the one! :) > > One could argue that with the 2 active stable branches that we have > now the freebsd-stable@ mailing list is already quite confusing. > Adding a third (8-STABLE) will make it much more so (arguably > confusion to the third power instead of just confusion squared), for a > lot of reasons that I think are probably obvious. > > Thus, my suggestion. Split what is currently freebsd-stable into one > list per branch. This year I even have a better suggestion for the > names, freebsd-6@, freebsd-7@, and freebsd-8@. After the flag day mail > sent to the existing -stable list can get an auto-reply explaining the > new world order. > > > What do you think? > > Doug > I think this is a very good idea. This would also allow targeting specific releases directly from the documentation/release notes. I vote on specifically: FreeBSD-8stable FreeBSD-8release FreeBSD-7stable FreeBSD-7release and then 9 or current just stays the same obviously. and so on.... Then at EOL drop and archive the list that coordinates. Not to mention the benefits of tracking problems per distribution that this would provide. Just some thoughts. Best regards. -- - (2^(N-1))