docs/153821: Removal of 3 public technical mailing lists

David Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org
Sun Jan 9 17:50:03 UTC 2011


>Number:         153821
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Removal of 3 public technical mailing lists
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 09 17:50:02 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     David Wolfskill
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
Wolfskill & Dowling Residence
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD albert.catwhisker.org 8.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE #202 r217189: Sun Jan 9 04:00:40 PST 2011 root at freebeast.catwhisker.org:/common/S1/obj/usr/src/sys/ALBERT i386

>Description:
	The three public technical mailing lists:

	freebsd-alpha
	freebsd-qa
	freebsd-smp

	have been removed.  While their archives remain, it is no longer
	possible to post to or receive messages from them.
>How-To-Repeat:
	Note discrepancy between mailing lists shown at
	(e.g.)<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL>
	vs. those shown at <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo>.
>Fix:

Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/freebsd/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.203
diff -u -r1.203 chapter.sgml
--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml	10 Nov 2010 20:17:02 -0000	1.203
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml	9 Jan 2011 17:09:13 -0000
@@ -192,11 +192,6 @@
 	    </row>
 
 	    <row>
-	      <entry>&a.alpha.name;</entry>
-	      <entry>Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha</entry>
-	    </row>
-
-	    <row>
 	      <entry>&a.amd64.name;</entry>
 	      <entry>Porting FreeBSD to AMD64 systems</entry>
 	    </row>
@@ -461,11 +456,6 @@
 	    </row>
 
 	    <row>
-	      <entry>&a.qa.name;</entry>
-	      <entry>Discussion of Quality Assurance, usually pending a release</entry>
-	    </row>
-
-	    <row>
 	      <entry>&a.rc.name;</entry>
 	      <entry>Discussion related to the <filename>rc.d</filename> system and its development</entry>
 	    </row>
@@ -497,12 +487,6 @@
 	    </row>
 
 	    <row>
-	      <entry>&a.smp.name;</entry>
-	      <entry>Design discussions for [A]Symmetric
-		MultiProcessing</entry>
-	    </row>
-
-	    <row>
 	      <entry>&a.sparc.name;</entry>
 	      <entry>Porting FreeBSD to &sparc; based systems</entry>
 	    </row>
@@ -529,6 +513,11 @@
 	    </row>
 
 	    <row>
+	      <entry>&a.tilera.name;</entry>
+	      <entry>porting FreeBSD to the Tilera family of CPUs</entry>
+	    </row>
+
+	    <row>
 	      <entry>&a.testing.name;</entry>
 	      <entry>FreeBSD Performance and Stability Tests</entry>
 	    </row>
Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/mailing-lists.ent
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/freebsd/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/mailing-lists.ent,v
retrieving revision 1.73
diff -u -r1.73 mailing-lists.ent
--- en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/mailing-lists.ent	1 Dec 2010 20:37:05 -0000	1.73
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/mailing-lists.ent	9 Jan 2011 17:09:36 -0000
@@ -24,10 +24,6 @@
 <!ENTITY a.aic7xxx "<ulink url='&a.aic7xxx.url;'>FreeBSD Adaptec AIC7xxx discussions mailing list</ulink>">
 <!ENTITY a.aic7xxx.name "<ulink url='&a.aic7xxx.url;'>freebsd-aic7xxx</ulink>">
 
-<!ENTITY a.alpha.url "&a.mailman.listinfo;/freebsd-alpha">
-<!ENTITY a.alpha "<ulink url='&a.alpha.url;'>FreeBSD Alpha porting mailing list</ulink>">
-<!ENTITY a.alpha.name "<ulink url='&a.alpha.url;'>freebsd-alpha</ulink>">
-
 <!ENTITY a.amd64.url "&a.mailman.listinfo;/freebsd-amd64">
 <!ENTITY a.amd64 "<ulink url='&a.amd64.url;'>Porting FreeBSD to AMD64 systems</ulink>">
 <!ENTITY a.amd64.name "<ulink url='&a.amd64.url;'>freebsd-amd64</ulink>">
@@ -357,10 +353,6 @@
 <!ENTITY a.python "<ulink url='&a.python.url;'>FreeBSD Python mailing list</ulink>">
 <!ENTITY a.python.name "<ulink url='&a.python.url;'>freebsd-python</ulink>">
 
-<!ENTITY a.qa.url "&a.mailman.listinfo;/freebsd-qa">
-<!ENTITY a.qa "<ulink url='&a.qa.url;'>FreeBSD Quality Assurance mailing list</ulink>">
-<!ENTITY a.qa.name "<ulink url='&a.qa.url;'>freebsd-qa</ulink>">
-
 <!ENTITY a.questions.url "&a.mailman.listinfo;/freebsd-questions">
 <!ENTITY a.questions "<ulink url='&a.questions.url;'>FreeBSD general questions mailing list</ulink>">
 <!ENTITY a.questions.name "<ulink url='&a.questions.url;'>freebsd-questions</ulink>">
@@ -393,10 +385,6 @@
 <!ENTITY a.small "<ulink url='&a.small.url;'>FreeBSD-small mailing list</ulink>">
 <!ENTITY a.small.name "<ulink url='&a.small.url;'>freebsd-small</ulink>">
 
-<!ENTITY a.smp.url "&a.mailman.listinfo;/freebsd-smp">
-<!ENTITY a.smp "<ulink url='&a.smp.url;'>FreeBSD symmetric multiprocessing mailing list</ulink>">
-<!ENTITY a.smp.name "<ulink url='&a.smp.url;'>freebsd-smp</ulink>">
-
 <!ENTITY a.sparc.url "&a.mailman.listinfo;/freebsd-sparc64">
 <!ENTITY a.sparc "<ulink url='&a.sparc.url;'>FreeBSD SPARC porting mailing list</ulink>">
 <!ENTITY a.sparc.name "<ulink url='&a.sparc.url;'>freebsd-sparc64</ulink>">
@@ -487,10 +475,17 @@
 <!ENTITY a.threads "<ulink url='&a.threads.url;'>FreeBSD threads mailing list</ulink>">
 <!ENTITY a.threads.name "<ulink url='&a.threads.url;'>freebsd-threads</ulink>">
 
+<<<<<<< mailing-lists.ent
+<!ENTITY a.tilera.url "&a.mailman.listinfo;/freebsd-tilera">
+<!ENTITY a.tilera "<ulink url='&a.tilera.url;'>porting FreeBSD to the Tilera family of CPUs</ulink>">
+<!ENTITY a.tilera.name "<ulink url='&a.tilera.url;'>freebsd-tilera</ulink>">
+
+=======
 <!ENTITY a.tilera.url "&a.mailman.listinfo;/freebsd-tilera">
 <!ENTITY a.tilera "<ulink url='&a.tilera.url;'>Porting FreeBSD to the Tilera family of CPUs</ulink>">
 <!ENTITY a.tilera.name "<ulink url='&a.tilera.url;'>freebsd-tilera</ulink>">
 
+>>>>>>> 1.73
 <!ENTITY a.tokenring.url "&a.mailman.listinfo;/freebsd-tokenring">
 <!ENTITY a.tokenring "<ulink url='&a.tokenring.url;'>FreeBSD tokenring mailing list</ulink>">
 <!ENTITY a.tokenring.name "<ulink url='&a.tokenring.url;'>freebsd-tokenring</ulink>">


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