Creation of a new list for Embedded....

[Robert Watson]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, gnn at freebsd.org wrote:

> At Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:10:44 -0600 (MDT),
> Warren Block wrote:
>> So will freebsd-small go away?  Both lists share the description of
>> "Dedicated and embedded systems based on FreeBSD".
>
> When I initially talked to people about this the thought was that the list 
> would be moved, but that was considered too intrusive, and the idea was 
> dropped.
>
> For my own part I am now using exclusively embedded, and will drop my small 
> membership in a week or so.  If people "vote with their feet" and the 
> traffic on small drops to 0 then we can make some choices about it, but that 
> is not important right now.

I, for one, would still prefer to see the existing subscriptions move over 
:-).  I often subscribe to lists and then poll the mailbox every now and then 
to see if there are topics of interest.  Little annoys me more than coming 
back from a vacation and discovering that I have, in effect, been dropped from 
the mailing list becaue the subscriber base hasn't been moved to a replacement 
list.  This happened to me recently on the Linux security modules mailing list 
-- they also offer no archive of the messages since the move, so I can't 
easily find out what they talked about over the last two months :-(.  If we 
believe embedded@ is really replacing small@, my feeling is we should add all 
current subscribers to the new list, alias the old list to the new list, and 
remove subscribers + disable subscriptions to the old list.  The old small@ 
archives will remain around, and pointed to for the purposes of access to old 
archives, but I think having two lists is confusing.  Or, at least, I'm 
confused. :-)

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge