Policy for removing working code

[Vadim Goncharov]

Hi Julian H. Stacey! 

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:20:10 +0200; Julian H. Stacey wrote about 'Re: Policy for removing working code':

>>> If someone is following a RELENG_X (a.k.a -STABLE) or a RELENG_X_Y (a
>>> errata fix branch), then they should be reading the stable@ list.
>> 
>> True for RELENG_X, but not for RELENG_X_Y. They shouldn't, because all
>> information for security/errata fix branch go to announce@, they don't
>> need to read all noise in stable@ just for this. And, what is more important,
>> they in fact don't do. So announce@ is the only choice from purely practical
>> means.

> One option could be a new list perhaps called eg one of
> 	features@
> 	advisories@
> 	notifications@
> 	feature-notifications@
> to carry heads up notification of future feature changes / removals.
> Its would be more traffic than
> 	announce@
> but much lower traffic than
> 	stable@
> FreeBSD already has the precedent of
> 	security-notifications@

Umm, no: security-notifications@ is not an addon to, but rather a subset of
announce@ for those who don't care about anything except the most important
events - security.

So announce@ would be sufficient - and Handbook already states that things
like call for volunteers go to announce@ (and many feature removal
notifications may be not certain if there will be volunteers then).

But perhaps your idea is applicable to www.freebsd.org, though.

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