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

[Erik Trulsson]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 05:17:06PM -0700, Doug Barton 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.

Is it?  I can't say I have noted any particular confusion here, especially
not any related to the fact that this list covers both 6-stable and
7-stable.   


> 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
> 
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