New Mailinglist: freebsd-wip-status@
Max Laier
max at love2party.net
Mon Jun 9 19:03:06 UTC 2008
Hello everybody,
SHORT SUMMARY:
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wip-status
Subscribe today!! Tell all your friends, co-workers and everybody you
know who's interested in FreeBSD. Post this on your blog! ;)
LONG VERSION:
if you've been around lately you might already know about our effort to
provide periodical status reports about ongoing FreeBSD related WIPs.
The past reports can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/news/status
This system has some shortcomings however. The biggest one is that due to
the collection overhead and the high rate of exciting development under
the FreeBSD umbrella most of the reports are somewhat outdated by the
time they get to "print". Other projects never are announced in the
status reports because they happen in-between and fall through the
cracks.
In order to improve this situation we have created a new mailing list that
should receive status reports from now on. This list will be moderated
in order to keep it close to the subject. The intend is to make this an
inviting place for people with little time to still stay on top of the
latest and greatest in and around FreeBSD, but where one can avoid the
chatter that comes with the technical debates on the normal lists.
For all developers, contributors, conference organizers, 3rd party
distributions, SoC-students and whoeverelse has exciting news about their
FreeBSD related project this means little work. Most of you already are
sending out announcement- and update-emails to lists like current@, net@
or whichever fits your project in order to inform the world about the
progress you've made. Now we would like to invite you to BCC: this email
to freebsd-wip-status@ as well for maximum exposure. Emails with a lot
of gory, technical details are probably not suited for this list, but the
usual: "Hey, I've got these cool patches to test. Here is what they
do: ..." most certainly is.
So this is really like the status reports before, but everybody subscribed
can get the news when they happen (and not three month later when the
next status reports are due).
I hope for your support in bootstrapping this idea. During the next few
weeks I'll keep a close eye on the lists I'm subscribed to and will
encourage people to forward matching posts to freebsd-wip-status@ You
are welcome to do the same.
We also plan to keep the status reports as is, but collecting the reports
from this new list, too. This should give the best of both worlds, we
hope.
If you have any questions or would like to help with editing the status
reports, please contact monthly at FreeBSD.org (reply-to set) or myself
directly.
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