Re: [EXTERNAL]Re: [PATCH 0/5] Remove dead linux-mips.org references

Kurt Martin
2021-03-23T03:37:26Z

This message was rejected by the spam filter at vger.kernel.org. To ensure that everybody on the original email list gets the reply, I'm resending it as plain text (which I should have figured out long ago). I profusely apologize for the multiple resends.

Hi Lukas,

I apologize for the delay.  As you may know, we recently emerged from Chapter 11 reorganization and I'm working on a lot of issues related to this.  I did get in touch with Ralf, but I have not been able to make progress with Hetzner.  I'm dependent on Ralf to help me get the machine at Hetzner working again.  I will continue to try to do this.

If waiting for me to get linux-mips.org working is not an option, I understand that you may have to move on.  I know the disappearance of linux-mips.org has caused problems for you.  But can you please help me understand the implication of your question: "should Thomas pick up the remaining patches of this series?"  I am thinking the answer to that question is yes, but I'm not sure if I'm the right person to answer that question.  I guess I am somewhat clueless about how the patch process works for MIPS, and how linux-mips.org is involved.  If I am never able to get linux-mips.org back online, what does that mean?

So please understand that I want to keep the "MIPS infrastructure" items such as linux-mips.org functioning.  Any help or suggestions are welcomed.  Thank you.

Regards,

Kurt

From: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2021 12:52 AM
To: Kurt Martin <kmartin@wavecomp.com>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>; Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>; linux-mips@vger.kernel.org <linux-mips@vger.kernel.org>; Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>; Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>; linux-edac@vger.kernel.org <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>; linux-hams@vger.kernel.org <linux-hams@vger.kernel.org>; kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL]Re: [PATCH 0/5] Remove dead linux-mips.org references

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 7:19 PM Kurt Martin <kmartin@wavecomp.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Everybody,
>
> This is Kurt Martin.  I'm part of the MIPS Customer Engineering team at Wave Computing.  Some of you may remember me.  I have just established contact with Ralf, and I will be working with him to restore linux-mips.org back to life.  I just got the account and login information for the linux-mips.org hosting account at Hetzner from Chris Dearman.
>
> So as Maciej says, please hold off any actions at this time, and I will attempt to get linux-mips.org working again as quickly as possible.  Thanks!
>

It has been a month by now... I just wanted to check if linux-mips.org
is back on its way to be available. Or should Thomas pick up the
remaining patches of this series?

Lukas