From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264239AbUESPLH (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 11:11:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264242AbUESPLG (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 11:11:06 -0400 Received: from ipcop.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.15]:60373 "EHLO work.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264239AbUESPLB (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 11:11:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 08:09:49 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: bk-3.2.0 released Message-ID: <20040519150949.GA8584@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig References: <20040518233238.GC28206@work.bitmover.com> <20040519075128.A19221@infradead.org> <20040519140259.GA18977@work.bitmover.com> <20040519141115.GO1912@lug-owl.de> <20040519141648.GB18977@work.bitmover.com> <20040519142656.GP1912@lug-owl.de> <20040519144852.GC18977@work.bitmover.com> <20040519150040.GR1912@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040519150040.GR1912@lug-owl.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:00:40PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-19 07:48:52 -0700, Larry McVoy > wrote in message <20040519144852.GC18977@work.bitmover.com>: > > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 04:26:56PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-05-19 07:16:48 -0700, Larry McVoy > > > wrote in message <20040519141648.GB18977@work.bitmover.com>: > > > > new version of a widely used tool is available? If someone posted that > > > > there is a new version of gcc available is that off topic? > > > > > > Yes, it was. Even miscompilation reports are mostly OT, since they > > > should go to GCC's bugzilla. > > > > Sigh. This strikes me as "aha, Larry's posted something, let's see if > > we can get him hooked on some trollbait, that would be fun, it's been > > a while!" > > Not at all! You *do* post useful/helpful/serious/whatnot emails (eg. > those about the corruption-at-page's-end topic). It's just that I like > to see noise on this list going down, which includes announcments eg. of > binutils/gcc, bitkeeper, but also the constant announcments for > yet-some-more-email-addresses-added patches for some rarely used script. Some people complain that we don't announce BK releases and some people complain that we do. Given that we do a release about twice a year I think complaining about it is over the top. I'm quite happy to stop announcing it here but the cost of that is I'll just turn off support for the older releases on openlogging.org and bkbits.net. That's not very polite to the BK users (it's completely legal, you are supposed to stay current under the terms of the BKL) but it would keep the list free of these oh-so-annoying and oh-so-frequent posts. See the tradeoff? Whether you do or don't, I thought about this and felt it was better to post than to not post. If you had been in my position I suspect you'd do the same thing. So how about we let this little tempest in a teapot die now? I'm sure we have better things to do with our time. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com