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

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On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:17 -0000, 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.
> 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 freebsd-8 at . 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
>
On second thought you could also create the FreeBSD-?stable list and 
still have then CC'd to the FreeBSD-stable list for archive purposes 
allowing people to just subscribe to one list or all of them as a group.



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