Re: [gentoo-dev] Should significant changes to arch be posted to -announce mail list?

[Ned Ludd]

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 22:33, Lance Albertson wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 13:33, Lisa Seelye wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 12:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > > On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:09:55 -0400 Lisa Seelye <lisa@g.o> wrote:
> > > | I think they should.  Having new blockers come up on an arch box when
> > > | attempting to update is a little worrysome.  Or having a new way of
> > > | doing things (such as the inevitable move to udev in lieu of devfs).
> > > |
> > > | The things that I would hope to see in such an announcement would be a
> > > | suitable upgrade path, reason for change, and a link to gentoo-dev
> > > | discussion if available.
> > >
> > > For sparc and mips, announcements (and often pre-announcements) are sent
> > > to the gentoo-sparc/gentoo-mips lists. I'd imagine most other archs do
> > > the same.
> >
> > Fair enough.  I didn't see any x86 (or any other arch) announce list so
> > I figured I'd get the ball rolling.
>
> Is there an gentoo-x86 ML ? I'd think that would be an excellent
> addition to our current structure. We already have mailing lists for the
> other archs, why not x86? I know that x86 is the biggest user for
> Gentoo, but if we need to get out x86 specific stuff, I'd think an x86
> ML would be ideal. Thoughts?

This is a good idea.

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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Gentoo (hardened,security,infrastructure,embedded,toolchain) Developer