Re: mailing list for trace users

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Sep 23 2009 - 18:02:53 EST



* David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:30:20 +0200
>
> > Also, what is the policy for adding new lists to vger.kernel.org? If
> > a subsystem maintainer asks for a list named after a core kernel
> > subsystem, how frequently is it rejected, and on what basis?
>
> Ingo, relax, I'll create your list.

Thanks!

> What's really sad is that you don't attend enough conferences so that
> you can meet face to face with people and you (and others) would as a
> result avoid many unnecessarily heated discussions as a result.

I calmed down already ;-) Sorry about the tone - my remarks were clearly
over the top - it felt really frustrating to get such a curt reply after
months of failed attempts to create this list.

Thanks again for doing it. Development will happen on lkml as usual, but
users/newbies generally prefer some topical-sounding email address to
mail to, and for that one the naming does matter.

Ingo
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