On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 05:17:06PM -0700, Doug Barton 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.
Is it? I can't say I have noted any particular confusion here, especially not any related to the fact that this list covers both 6-stable and 7-stable. > 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 freebs...@. 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 > > -- > > This .signature sanitized for your protection > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
