Mailing list freebsd-vendors@freebsd.org is being retired
Julian H. Stacey
jhs at berklix.com
Wed Nov 3 00:49:34 UTC 2010
David Wolfskill wrote:
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> David H. Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org
Hi David & all,
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-vendors/
Last real post:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-vendors/2007-August/date.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-vendors/2007-August/000029.html
that better belonged on another list, & since then spam.
Rather than/ before zapping it,
should we first consider broadening current definition ?
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-vendors
Coordination between the release engineers and vendors
developing FreeBSD-based products.
Maybe one might boil down & add some ideas from some of this:
While a normal tech. discussion list is terminated if not
busy; & an announce list is low traffic; perhaps in its
nature vendors@ should expect to be very low traffic, yet
still be retained ? Both for eg major/minor lib versus
kernel & release issues, but also as a list of quiet people
who have in the past mastered CDs &/or DVDs &/or emebdded/
bundled on to hardware or systems &/or may in future, & who
have already &/or stand ready to consider infrequent/ obscure
often more business/ licensing/ bundling type questions
etc, of less interest or business experience to mainstream
FreeBSD people ?
( Though, long `bike shed' discussions about licensing can
periodically occure on practically any open source list,
& while many have views, & many write, not all views are
equally interesting, & some business oriented enquirers
may prefer fewer responses from others who are more likely
business oriented )
vendors@ is perhaps an asset when switching into suit mode to
present BSD to businesses ?
vendors@ is referenced on both FreeBSD.org pages & elsewhere,
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=vendors%40freebsd&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images
Cheers,
Julian
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