Atheros Open Hal

[Mark Linimon]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:51:54PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote:
> Quoting from
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/people.html:
> "In order to develop FreeBSD, committers must have the ability to
> openly discuss matters that will be resolved before they are publicly
> announced. Frank discussions of work in progress are not suitable for
> open publication and may harm FreeBSD."

Of course, the sentence you omitted that precedes the above is:

  "The FreeBSD developers mailing list is for the exclusive use of FreeBSD
  committers."

So you are taking the policy for *one single* private mailing list and,
by removing the context, making it appear that we are in some way attempting
to stifle discussion on the public lists.

The mailing list in question is more often used to hash out disagreements
(technical and otherwise) among developers than to hide anything.  For
many people, it would be of little interest.

If you think that some kind of issue is not being addressed, your best
bet is a post to advocacy at .  If you want to work on code, then hackers@
is probably a better bet.

mcl