From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ig0-f172.google.com ([209.85.213.172]:60319 "EHLO mail-ig0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932427AbaEPOCL (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2014 10:02:11 -0400 Received: by mail-ig0-f172.google.com with SMTP id uy17so805299igb.5 for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 07:02:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1400248927.979.2.camel@sasami.ottawa.blindsidenetworks.com> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfstests: new mailing list From: Calvin Walton To: =?UTF-8?Q?Luk=C3=A1=C5=A1?= Czerner Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Dave Chinner , fstests@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 10:02:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: <20140516044611.GA8206@dastard> <20140516054009.GA17647@infradead.org> <20140516085320.GA29279@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 10:55 +0200, Lukáš Czerner wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2014, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:48:42AM +0200, Luk?? Czerner wrote: > > > > > As requested I've created a new mailing list for xfstests > > > > > development and discussion. Reflecting the fact that the test > > > > > harness is not really XFS specific anymore, the list is: > > > > > > > > > > fstests@vger.kernel.org > > > > > > > > Isn't there an "x" missing somewhere? > > > > > > It's intentional and it is "Reflecting the fact that the test > > > harness is not really XFS specific anymore", even though the test > > > suite itself keep the name xfstests. > > > > > > This way it's more obvious to people that this is in fact not xfs > > > specific. > > > > Having the name different from the project it is for is stupid. Either > > rename the test suite, or use the same name for the mailing list. > > Renaming the test suite is a good option if we can agree on this. Instead of renaming the test suite, why not just "backronym" it to mean something different? The letter x is used to mean "cross" in many contexts, so "xfstests" could easily mean "cross-filesystem tests" - a name that fits perfectly! Only kind of joking, Calvin. -- Calvin Walton