On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 05:06:53PM -0400, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > On Wed, July 27, 2005 10:47 am, Joerg Sonnenberger said: > > You mean other than reading the HEADS UPs? I try to warn at least after > > distruptive changes and point to possible fixes. Sometimes things slip > > through, either because I didn't expect the breakage or before I just > > forget them. > > What happens if someone doesn't read the mailing lists? Someone running > HEAD should be, of course, but anything that affects non-HEAD users should > be written down someplace else more permanent.
I agree on this. I'll add entries to UPDATING once the current interface work is done, together with incrementing the tiny version. Something like "When updating from pre-1.3.3 to HEAD, keep in mind that ...". I should also add that the PAM are not as bad as it seems, as long as you don't mix them. It certainly can be surprising to edit /etc/pam.conf and find the new settings being ignored, because the service was already descriped somewhere else :-) > That's a large part of the reason I put together the DragonFly BSD Log; so > people don't have to read mailing lists religiously to see what's going > on. CVS logs should be the avenue of last resort for most people. *nod* /me whispers about a low-traffic dragonfly-headsup list Joerg
