Re: linux-arm-kernel useless for development (was Re: Your messageto Linux-arm-kernel awaits moderator approval)

From: Russell King
Date: Thu Aug 06 2009 - 07:56:15 EST


On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 01:02:47PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Thu 2009-08-06 11:44:21, Russell King wrote:
>
> > It appears the answer to that is no. People are free to subscribe to
> > the one on vger, where they won't have to "put up" with me. However,
> > it seems that people much prefer to subscribe to my lists, because that
> > seems to be where the expertise is.
> >
> > Moreover,
> >
> > (a) when ever you have a problem, you go shouting and making public
> > accusations without trying first to resolve the problem in private.
>
> When I tried asking in private, I was told to stop complaining or loose
> my mailing list subscription. I'd prefer not to make that mistake again.

... in response to your whinging about the "headers matched a filter
rule" mailman whining. I had enough of your whinging and whining in
April, and I've certainly had enough now. But guess what? The
problem eventually got fixed after working out what was going on.

> > (c) you really don't understand that "held for moderation" is *not*
> > rejection, but merely a case of mailman spotting something it doesn't
> > like and letting a *human* deal with it rather than out-right rejecting
> > it.
>
> For lakml, held for moderation _does_ mean it will return with
> "posting rejected: no reason given" in few days. I have never seen any
> other result, and have got perfectly reasonable messages rejected with
> "no reason". So no, I do not believe there's cooperative human being
> moderating lakml.

http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/message/20090730.090827.654305e1.en.html

is your message that you're currently stiring the shit about. Oh
look, it's in the archives. Oh, that means it must have been
let through.

> > I wonder, do you even know what happened to the message you're whinging
> > about? Would you prefer that your message was silently dropped into
> > /dev/null instead of having a chance of the issue being resolved? It
> > strikes me that _that_ would be a better solution than all your
> > whinging.
>
> So... your solution to broken mailing list is to silence everyone who
> complains?

No. My solution would have been to fix the mailing list had you not
made this a public issue in an offensive way.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
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