docs/163522: [PATCH] New mailing list: freebsd-ports-announce at freebsd.org

[Sahil Tandon]

>Number:         163522
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] New mailing list: freebsd-ports-announce at freebsd.org
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 22 03:30:10 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Sahil Tandon
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	
>Description:
Per request from portmgr@, as communicated to postmaster@ by
Thomas Abthorpe (tabthorpe@), we have created a new Mailman-managed
public mailing list.  This PR contains a patch to update the
relevant sections of the online documentation; please adjust and
canonicalize as necessary.
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:

	



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Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.215
diff -u -r1.215 chapter.sgml
--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml	21 Oct 2011 17:57:41 -0000	1.215
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml	13 Dec 2011 23:57:16 -0000
@@ -439,6 +439,11 @@
 	    </row>
 
 	    <row>
+	      <entry>&a.ports-announce.name;</entry>
+	      <entry>Important news and instructions about the Ports Collection</entry>
+	    </row>
+
+	    <row>
 	      <entry>&a.ports-bugs.name;</entry>
 	      <entry>Discussion of the ports bugs/PRs</entry>
 	    </row>
@@ -1523,6 +1528,21 @@
 	</varlistentry>
 
 	<varlistentry>
+	  <term>&a.ports-announce.name;</term>
+          
+	  <listitem>
+	    <para><emphasis>Important news and instructions about the FreeBSD
+		<quote>ports collection</quote></emphasis></para>
+            
+	    <para>Important news for developers, porters, and users of the <quote>ports
+	      collection</quote> (<filename>/usr/ports</filename>), including 
+	      architecture/infrastructure changes, new capabilities, critical upgrade
+	      instructions, and release engineering information.  This is a low-volume
+	      mailing list, intended for announcements.</para>
+	  </listitem>
+	</varlistentry>
+
+	<varlistentry>
 	  <term>&a.ports-bugs.name;</term>
 
 	  <listitem>
Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/mailing-lists.ent
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/mailing-lists.ent,v
retrieving revision 1.86
diff -u -r1.86 mailing-lists.ent
--- en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/mailing-lists.ent	21 Oct 2011 16:49:38 -0000	1.86
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/mailing-lists.ent	13 Dec 2011 23:57:16 -0000
@@ -339,6 +339,10 @@
 <!ENTITY a.ports "<ulink url='&a.ports.url;'>FreeBSD ports mailing list</ulink>">
 <!ENTITY a.ports.name "<ulink url='&a.ports.url;'>freebsd-ports</ulink>">
 
+<!ENTITY a.ports-announce.url "&a.mailman.listinfo;/freebsd-ports-announce">
+<!ENTITY a.ports-announce "<ulink url='&a.ports-announce.url;'>FreeBSD ports announce mailing list</ulink>">
+<!ENTITY a.ports-announce.name "<ulink url='&a.ports-announce.url;'>freebsd-ports-announce</ulink>">
+
 <!ENTITY a.ports-bugs.url "&a.mailman.listinfo;/freebsd-ports-bugs">
 <!ENTITY a.ports-bugs "<ulink url='&a.ports-bugs.url;'>FreeBSD ports bugs mailing list</ulink>">
 <!ENTITY a.ports-bugs.name "<ulink url='&a.ports-bugs.url;'>freebsd-ports-bugs</ulink>">
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