From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 9 00:32:47 2008 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 75BC41065675 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2008 00:32:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf2006a@yahoo.com) Received: from web39103.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web39103.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.86.254]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E9E48FC20 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2008 00:32:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf2006a@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 82679 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Dec 2008 00:06:06 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=r212UdkmrRs5j85EsdeiYzq/C1B/nPk3jYMxK5PPL1xrRf7o0s/WVn/7qj6I0gk69HFt2ZCgRB8/HepOZRrfhfu+17m8tQehjaadfgzfHLHzQbo0uFEJ/9siBEbjQXQ8sQdN5081gSJCS0FVqzkN3RTQQDwjUUNol0dcc8Uy7hU=; X-YMail-OSG: ZQ3qiVYVM1khkx2.GyMlEqwuVJ5MVNXsJb_5uOMlbt1NFhaJIRu422pHe08YahU4M_Z4sxQoGOfaep8nQSanrKQKsrM1rOsBN.SnkJ5scJkXYqV6DZ9ydy_P1rmpsLjamhgtQcq7.EgASEt4XNlTtvNGEXdBCSr5eKLHanvSdoug68Lihz.fzxjpu4Ph1m8Ll6wGA6mm1olrh9I- Received: from [212.112.242.89] by web39103.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:06:06 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 16:06:06 -0800 (PST) From: bf To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <382641.82375.qm@web39103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: Re: visibility of release process X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bf2006a@yahoo.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:32:47 -0000 I'd also appreciate a little more frequent updating of the release schedule, maybe with some terse "we're waiting on this ... " notes, like there were for some past releases. I'd guess the amount of time involved in doing so would be modest. > * subversion. Without checking out the whole repository, it is a > little hard to use this as a news source and emails to the commit list > still look more like cvs than svn so it is a bit hard to see which > branch commits are going to. [3] Other than the comments that have already been made about the subject and the body of the messages, what's the matter with the other svn-src-stable-* or other svn-src-* mailing lists, some of which will focus more closely on those commits affecting the release(s)? Or, as someone suggested recently on one of the lists, something like: svn log -v -r '{2008-2-27}:HEAD' svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/7/ Regards, b.