Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:48:42 -0400 From: CmdLnKid <cmdlnkid@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perennial suggestion to split freebsd-stable into version-specific lists Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908301246510.9417@qvzrafvba.5c.ybpny> In-Reply-To: <4A99C502.4060102@FreeBSD.org> References: <4A99C502.4060102@FreeBSD.org>
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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))
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