Re: RFC: switching "THE REST" in MAINTAINERS away from linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Paolo Bonzini
2023-11-07T09:19:10Z

On 11/6/23 23:52, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> For this reason, I propose switching the "F: *" entry in MAINTAINERS
>> ("THE REST") topatches@lists.linux.dev instead. This list differs from LKML
>> in the following important aspects:
> How many patches are in "the rest" area? I don't think it is that
> many, and I believe those should be broadcasted, as it is not clear
> who should handle them. And lkml seems to be reasonable place for them
> at the moment.

Indeed, I suspect that a lot of the traffic to LKML does not come from
"THE REST", but rather from people using a git-send-email configuration like

[sendemail]
to = linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

I'm afraid that having everyone switch this to patches@lists.linux.dev
will take a looooong time. Right now I import LKML via public-inbox for
use by https://patchew.org/linux/, it doesn't include all messages but
it's pretty close; the patches@lists.linux.dev mailing list by
comparison hardly gets any message apart from Greg's stable kernel queues.

Paolo