From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932701AbWFMAea (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:34:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932698AbWFMAe3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:34:29 -0400 Received: from pop5-1.us4.outblaze.com ([205.158.62.125]:10948 "HELO pop5-1.us4.outblaze.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932691AbWFMAeG (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:34:06 -0400 From: Nigel Cunningham To: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: x86_64: x86-64 mailing lists / posting patchkits / x86-64 releases Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:35:32 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200606121307.54556.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200606121307.54556.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1699024.JkuRJrM6Ck"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200606131035.36012.ncunningham@linuxmail.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1699024.JkuRJrM6Ck Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi Andi et al. On Monday 12 June 2006 21:07, Andi Kleen wrote: > Hallo, > > Some administrativa. > > In the last time I've posted all patches I sent to Linus > at discuss@x86-64.org at least once. I did this because this list is > relatively low volume and I tended to get some useful feedback from the > people subscribed here. > > However I heard some rumours that I scared people away > from the list with the many patches. > > I also planned to post patches more often to get better > turnaround for reviews on changed patches. > > We still have a patches@x86-64 mailing list on x86-64.org which > is mostly unused. If I moved the big patch floods over there, > would the people who do reviews subscribe there? Please comment. I'll subscribe. (As in reply to the comment below...) I didn't know this si= te=20 or these lists existed. Regards, Nigel > Also I'll probably start x86_64-* patchkit releases again. Currently > my working dir on ftp.firstfloor.org is directly going into -mm* and > that sometimes causes problems because it is not as well tested as it wou= ld > be if a larger audience has run it. Also there are often non trivial > interactions with the many patches in -mm* and it's hard to figure > out where a problem comes from. So it looks like some separate > testing would be better. > > I hope people would be still interested in running x86_64-* patchkits. > > Also my feeling is that I need to involve linux-kernel more. It seems > the majority of x86-64 users don't even know now this mailing list > exists, so they don't review or test the latest releases. Also > the traffic here seems to be less and less now except for me > (or do I just imagine that?) > > I suppose posting all patches there would be too much though, but > at least the announcements should be going there. I still think > it's valuable to have some kind of separate x86-64 list because > linux-kernel is just too much to keep up with and it would > drown valuable bug reports etc. in the general noise. > > Any feedback from x86-64 contributors on how to organize this better > welcome. > > -Andi > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ =2D-=20 Nigel, Michelle and Alisdair Cunningham 5 Mitchell Street Cobden 3266 Victoria, Australia --nextPart1699024.JkuRJrM6Ck Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEjghXN0y+n1M3mo0RAkyRAJ43DmUTsZgReYRzSn4ruZMJ9UjCUwCfdbHe xgAUipSLUC9Y0+ZznIMPMxk= =Fu28 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1699024.JkuRJrM6Ck--