Al Hopper wrote: >On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Eric Lowe wrote: > > > >>Peter Buckingham wrote: >> >> >>>There was some discussion about having a more technical mailing >>>list/community ala freebsd hackers/lkml/... >>> >>>Was there any progress made on that? I'm definitely interested in >>>discoverying/learning more about the internals of Solaris. >>> >>> >>It has been discussed, but there is some grumbling that >>opensolaris-discuss is still OK for this kind of discussion since we >>haven't reached the threshold of pain yet as far as traffic. There has >>also been a fair amount of this type of traffic on opensolaris-code, >>although that list should be going away soon... >> >> > >I would like to propose a highly technical kernel related mailing >list/project - name TBD (chosen via discussion) per the original (failed >community) proposal by Eric Lowe. Essentially I am proposing the "Eric >Lowe" project/list of his behalf or by proxy, if you will. > >The list would be a moderated list to ensure that the signal to noise ratio >is maintained over the long term. This would be our first OpenSolaris >moderated list and it should be considered an experiment that will be >successfull or unsuccessfull based on the number of active participants, >the quality of the postings and the ability of the moderators to ensure >timely postings and to refer off-topic posts to other, more appropriate, >unmoderated, lists. > > > Excellent idea Al, this could become a very useful low noise technical resource.
> >PS: I will also make myself available as a moderator for the proposed list. > > > We should have a couple of moderators in different timezones to keep discussions alive. Ian. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
