Re: Should we remove xdp-newbies from kernel patch CC-list?

["Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>]

David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:

> From: Zvi Effron <zeffron@riotgames.com>
> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 12:28:52 -0500
>
>> On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:19 AM Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Question to people subscribed to xdp-newbies@vger.kernel.org mailing
>>> list.  As you likely have noticed, patches and kbuild-bot is sending
>>> XDP related kernel stuff to this mailing list.  This is caused by being
>>> listed in the kernel MAINTAINERS file[1].
>>>
>> 
>> I cast my vote for both. Having the named newbies channel send many,
>> many messages with kernel patches is intimidating to new people (and
>> somewhat spammy) which makes it harder to convince my team to sign up
>> for the list. At the same time, I've appreciated being able to see
>> what's happening on patches as well as questions and discussions.
>> 
>> Would it make sense/be possible to create a mailing list for the
>> maintainers file and discussions on patches that is separate from the
>> newbies channel? I have to say, the newbies channel is the only newbie
>> friendly kernel mailing list I've seen, and it's a big part of why I
>> pushed for my company to use XDP over DPDK.
>
> The bpf and netdev lists act as incubators for XDP discussion, so I don't
> know if it's worth making an xdp-devel or something like that.

I'd worry that it would fragment the discussion too much?

-Toke