Re: [patch] maintainers: remove moderated arm list

Russell King
2005-01-04T10:19:36Z

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:33:26AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:25:15AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > In that case, you can personally choose not to send mail there anymore.
> > It's completely up to you. No one is forcing you to send email to any
> > address.
>
> I don't plan to force anyone to do anything with their mailinglists.
> But we shouldn't mention lists with stupid policies as maintainer contacts.

As Alan has already pointed out, there's more to the MAINTAINERS file
than just pointing out to main line kernel developers where to send
their patches.

> > I don't care if you personally agree with that or not. That's not what
> > it's about. It's about taking reasonable steps to cover ones own ass
> > and the communities ass to ensure survival in silly-law environments.
>
> Maybe you should offshore your lists to conuntries with saner laws (or
> at least to less obedient people..)

s/or at least to less obedient people/and offshore the list administrators
as well/

People seem rather unwilling to do so because it's a hell of a lot of
hastle to look after properly. The suggestion has been made in the
past and always comes to nothing.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core