Re: Perennial suggestion to split freebsd-stable into version-specific lists

2009-08-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
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

Re: Perennial suggestion to split freebsd-stable into version-specific lists

2009-08-30 Thread CmdLnKid
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:17 -, 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.

Re: Perennial suggestion to split freebsd-stable into version-specific lists

2009-08-30 Thread CmdLnKid
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:17 -, 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.

Re: Perennial suggestion to split freebsd-stable into version-specific lists

2009-08-30 Thread Philipp Ost
CmdLnKid wrote: On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:17 -, 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

Re: Perennial suggestion to split freebsd-stable into version-specific lists

2009-08-30 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi, Thus, my suggestion. Split what is currently freebsd-stable into one list per branch. We could also THINK about whether we want more than 1 stable branch, which is the true case now. Either we relese too often or older releases have a far to long lifecycle before reching EOL. Recalling

Re: Perennial suggestion to split freebsd-stable into version-specific lists

2009-08-29 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: ... 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