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

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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.

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