From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 6 8:25:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA92414BC4 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:25:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA11747; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:25:34 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id JAA77439; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:25:34 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200001061625.JAA77439@harmony.village.org> To: Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: UPDATING is stale? Cc: Alexander Langer , Marcin Cieslak , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jan 2000 18:19:09 +0200." <5140.947175549@axl.noc.iafrica.com> References: <5140.947175549@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 09:25:33 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <5140.947175549@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sheldon Hearn writes: : Nobody's prepared to do the work, really. Basically, UPDATING was : started in response to numerous folks whining that such a thing should : exist. This was in spite of the numerous folks who believed that it : would quickly become stale. Yes. That's why. : If I recall correctly, its maintainer in CURRENT (imp) was one of those : who thought it wasn't a fantastic idea. Although he maintains it, he : expects some help in doing so, and just isn't getting the help he needs. No. I think it is a great idea. I just don't always have time to give to it. I got three entries in my queue right now for it... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message