5.0 newbies: FreeBSD's future [was: Re: Tracking -CURRENT]

[P. U. Kruppa]

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Cliff L. Biffle wrote:

> Well said.
>
> Speaking as someone who -is- subscribed to both current@ and cvs-all@, I got
> something on the order of three hundred new messages from the two lists
> today.  Expecting a user of 5.0-RELEASE who is tracking head for the bugfixes
> to read -- or even skim -- all these is, well, a tall order.
>
> However, I also recognize that a lot of developers aren't interested in
> answering questions, particularly ones that, to someone immersed in the code,
> seem dumb.
>
> Perhaps a new mailing list is in order?  I'm generally not a proponent of
> fragmenting mailing lists, since more often than not the people with
> questions are on one, while the people with answers are on another.  However,
> what do y'all think about a current-questions sort of list?  current@ tends
> to be more devel-oriented, and questions@ tends to be clueless about -current
> or even 5.0.  I know I would have benefited from it greatly early on (and
> probably still would).
>
> As far as searching the mailing list archives, that's all well and good -- as
> long as you know what to search for, which a lot of people don't.  "My
> computer won't leave the bootloader" doesn't translate for most people into a
> search query of "disabling ACPI."  :-)  (For relatively recent converts, it
> doesn't even translate to "my computer won't leave the bootloader," for that
> matter.)  The fact of the matter is that humans are vastly better
> natural-language search engines than what we have on the mailing list
> manager, assuming they're in a position to answer questions (are willing and
> have the time).  A separate questions list might resolve this...maybe.
> Thoughts?
I think this is a special situation which will be solved as soon
as there is a 5.x -STABLE.
Until then everybody should remember that one simply doesn't have
to answer mails that get on one's nerves.

Uli.


>
> -Cliff L. Biffle
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