From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 21 12:29:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA15198 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 12:29:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from gateway.skipstone.com (root@GATEWAY.SKIPSTONE.COM [198.214.10.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA15191 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 12:29:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from bugs.skipstone.com (bugs.skipstone.com [204.69.236.2]) by gateway.skipstone.com (8.7.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA10695; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:29:19 -0600 Received: from [204.69.236.50] (hotapplepie.skipstone.com [204.69.236.50]) by bugs.skipstone.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA29963; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:29:22 -0600 X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199611211750.LAA28837@main.gbdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:29:20 -0600 To: Gary Clark II From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: New mailing list - CVS-Alert??? Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Hello, > >I would like to propose a new mailing list. It would be called cvs-alert >and wuold be for those times that someone makes a commit that requires >either massive changes to way something is done or re-compiles >of programs. > >Lets face it, when someone is getting all of the lists or a large sub-portion >it can be hard to catch little messages at the end of commits telling >you to do this or that. > >Yea or Nay? Nay .. I thought that was one of the purposes of "current" and "stable". Whether it is a separate list of not, the value relies heavily on the committer posting a message. That IMHO is the present weak link. Another list would not help.