From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 11:02:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EBC837B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:02:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3122243FCB for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:02:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (kensmith@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h5CI2ibr026328 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:02:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kensmith@localhost) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h5CI2iax026327 for freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:02:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:02:44 -0400 From: Ken Smith To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030612180244.GG21995@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: The recent thread... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:02:46 -0000 Just so you know... I think I've figured out "generally how things work" (with lots of help from Jun) and how to approach trying to make something happen. For now I'd like to learn how to crawl before I attempt walking. I'll be drafting a "Please handle releases way" we can pass on to the RE folks now that there is interest in having a more formal and "staged" release. When the draft is ready I'll post it here for comments, ammend it as needed, and then we can try to pass it on to re@ for them to chew on. I'm not sure if it's something that should be done but seeing if the mirror system does handle the staged releases properly (meaning the -RELEASE stuff doesn't become publically downloadable from anywhere before the Release Date) should probably be thought about. This latest release was the first time that was a concern at all that I'm aware of. If any of you have doubts/questions/etc. and want someone to ask about it feel free to ask me. If I don't know the answer I don't mind trying to find the answer. I do have some ideas about how other things might be handled better, push mechanisms, etc. and I'd like to get to them at some point later if that's OK. Basically I want to try and get something *relatively* easy done first, then move on to something that is harder... Hopefully by that time I'll know more about the existing FreeBSD administrative structure and maybe they'll have been hearing enough from me that they're confident I'm not Bill Gates... :-) If anyone sees anything wrong with this let me know... -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |