From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 30 16:48:51 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 B497D106568F for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:48:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cmdlnkid@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f191.google.com (mail-yw0-f191.google.com [209.85.211.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E7E8FC08 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh29 with SMTP id 29so4812550ywh.33 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:48:50 -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=AGkw0oRY5CKC5IaofpOhWmeV5OHI6nAmIB0oSnY3sAw=; b=ZQzEHMBdLq6tuRm69OeEB1X+TpQZpAaKG/5jNffzKE3xtav1ST6y6moGlS1mqc4Ihx vWoq2Dx59CVx4yjqJ6rDsO++r3J6C6I0zp/FTMW8xwYxK2b3KIv3+1uKFMM/hL9nIjOu p8fB8TtV96gl6x8GLEtPkLFg7cJiAzJzgR5Po= 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=AUjakbaYBlz3pcd0Mx28puyk1htQP6k6oG2NXlsDU/IOq9MKFyn7/pIPbUW6qg0sLa 3SXjJdN2NvqHegFEKgoviWMlSI74mBTUeuW61leCK8FV1//VcLeubU/iLINVv1oUP9VY t0FTrHnVGqpDMpww2rPY0CuxW1YRp/MtZRVgc= Received: by 10.91.143.16 with SMTP id v16mr3151985agn.97.1251650929799; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:48:49 -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 5sm1634397agc.47.2009.08.30.09.48.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:48:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:48:42 -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@freebsd.org 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 16:48:51 -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 > On second thought you could also create the FreeBSD-?stable list and still have then CC'd to the FreeBSD-stable list for archive purposes allowing people to just subscribe to one list or all of them as a group. -- - (2^(N-1))