Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:36:23 +0000 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: "Daniel M. Kurry" <gh@over-yonder.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-related-announcements list? Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20031101212955.0325cba0@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <20031101203313.GF33954@over-yonder.net> References: <5.0.2.1.1.20031101122917.03141b78@popserver.sfu.ca> <5.0.2.1.1.20031101122917.03141b78@popserver.sfu.ca>
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At 14:33 01/11/2003 -0600, Daniel M. Kurry wrote: >Colin Percival said something like: > > Just a wild idea here: It seems to me that there is a need for an > > announcements list for items related to, but not part of, the FreeBSD > > project. > >What problem do you percieve with subscribing to list updates >individually? I'm not talking about regular announcements for well-established projects; I'm talking about new projects, or small projects which don't have their own mailing lists. You can't subscribe to a mailing list for a project until you know the project exists. To take FreeBSD Update as an example, I decided that -binup and -stable were probably the two most relevant lists, but there are lots of people who don't read those lists yet (later, after they heard about FreeBSD Update) said they wished they had seen the original announcement. There's a wide community of projects which are related to FreeBSD, but since these aren't part of The FreeBSD Project itself, they tend to be less well known than ideal. Colin Percival
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