From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264197AbUESOX0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 10:23:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264199AbUESOXZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 10:23:25 -0400 Received: from wsip-68-14-253-125.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.14.253.125]:59528 "EHLO office.labsysgrp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264197AbUESOXY (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 10:23:24 -0400 Message-ID: <40AB6DE6.2090005@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 07:23:34 -0700 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Organization: Back To Basics Network Management User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: bk-3.2.0 released 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> In-Reply-To: <20040519141648.GB18977@work.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Larry McVoy wrote: > I don't see the problem. What's the big deal about a post that says a > 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? No, this list gets monthly (if not more often) announcements of new versions of the "shortlog" tool and the other related tool, both of which are used pretty much exclusively by Linus and Marcelo. I haven't seen anyone complain about those, and their frequency is 10 times that of the BK update announcements.