Hello everybody, SHORT SUMMARY: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wip-status Subscribe today!! Tell all your friends, co-workers and everybody you know who's interested in FreeBSD. Post this on your blog! ;) LONG VERSION: if you've been around lately you might already know about our effort to provide periodical status reports about ongoing FreeBSD related WIPs. The past reports can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/news/status This system has some shortcomings however. The biggest one is that due to the collection overhead and the high rate of exciting development under the FreeBSD umbrella most of the reports are somewhat outdated by the time they get to "print". Other projects never are announced in the status reports because they happen in-between and fall through the cracks. In order to improve this situation we have created a new mailing list that should receive status reports from now on. This list will be moderated in order to keep it close to the subject. The intend is to make this an inviting place for people with little time to still stay on top of the latest and greatest in and around FreeBSD, but where one can avoid the chatter that comes with the technical debates on the normal lists. For all developers, contributors, conference organizers, 3rd party distributions, SoC-students and whoeverelse has exciting news about their FreeBSD related project this means little work. Most of you already are sending out announcement- and update-emails to lists like current@, net@ or whichever fits your project in order to inform the world about the progress you've made. Now we would like to invite you to BCC: this email to freebsd-wip-status@ as well for maximum exposure. Emails with a lot of gory, technical details are probably not suited for this list, but the usual: "Hey, I've got these cool patches to test. Here is what they do: ..." most certainly is. So this is really like the status reports before, but everybody subscribed can get the news when they happen (and not three month later when the next status reports are due). I hope for your support in bootstrapping this idea. During the next few weeks I'll keep a close eye on the lists I'm subscribed to and will encourage people to forward matching posts to freebsd-wip-status@ You are welcome to do the same. We also plan to keep the status reports as is, but collecting the reports from this new list, too. This should give the best of both worlds, we hope. If you have any questions or would like to help with editing the status reports, please contact monthly@FreeBSD.org (reply-to set) or myself directly. -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News