RE: [ofa-general] Opinions on moving Linux InfiniBand/RDMA mailinglist to vger?

From: Woodruff, Robert J
Date: Thu Aug 20 2009 - 18:41:48 EST


Roland wrote,

>Lately, I've had a few emails that I thought would have been of interest
>to both lkml and also to general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I've held back
>on cross-posting them because I know that general@ is subscribers-only,
>and the bounce messages are quite annoying to replies coming from lkml.

>The general@ list is subscribers-only because the openfabrics.org
>sysadmin team is already overworked without trying to keep an open list
>spam free. (I say that with no intention to criticize the
>openfabrics.org admins -- they do a terrific job of keeping things
>running with the limited resources available; it's more a testament to
>how impressive the vger mailing list admins are)

>I've also noticed one or two messages about the possibility of moving
>another moderated list to vger. Certainly I prefer open lists that
>don't require subscriptions to post.

>So with that background, what would people think about creating an open
>vger list (say, linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) to carry the discussion
>currently on general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx? (The transition plan would
>probably be to keep the general@ list for a month or two, with frequent
>announcements of the new list, until archives etc. have caught up with
>the switch)

The one question I would have would be do the kernel.org people want to
see all of the traffic that we currently have on the open fabrics
general list for all of the user-space components?

I do not think it would be good if we had to have one list on vger for
kernel work and another one for all the user-space work. Other than
that, I do not really care where the general develop list is hosted.

my 2 cents,
woody


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