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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:42:28 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Announcing the FreeBSD-XFree86 workers list
Message-ID:  <3C162964.4BD36186@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <86ofl5eps7.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>

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Akinori MUSHA wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Here I announce the launch of the FreeBSD-XFree86 list, which is
> created for discussion on reorganizing, improving and maintaining the
> XFree86 ports for FreeBSD.  Top priority of the moment is to divide
> the one big XFree86-4 port into a set of component ports and make the
> build process better.
> 
> Currently, the maintainers of the XFree86 4.x ports, Will as a
> portmgr, and I as coordinator/administrator of the list are joining,
> while we always welcome those who are interested in maintaining and
> improving the XFree86 4.x ports.
> 
> To join the list and/or browse the archive, use the following web
> interface:
> 
>         http://lists.csociety.org/listinfo/freebsd-xfree86
> 
> To begin with, we the workers will be concentrating on replacing the
> stock x11/XFree86-4 port with a meta port of the component ports
> (x11*/XFree86-4-*), so please do not post mere questions here yet.
> Try ports@FreeBSD.org or questions@FreeBSD.org for that purpose.  We
> will post a further announcement when we are ready to accept questions
> from ordinary users. (And we'll probably move to xfree86@FreeBSD.org
> then)

Cool, hopefully this would move forward long overdue issue with
breaking up XFree86 into individual components.

-Maxim

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