Re: mailing list for trace users

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* John Kacur <jkacur@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> > * David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> >> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:47:25 +0200
> >>
> >> > Could you please also create the linux-perf-users list, for perf
> >> > events and the perf tool related user questions? (We have asked for
> >> > this before but must have gotten lost somewhere)
> >>
> >> I think your communities are similar enough and small enough that you
> >> could share this list.
> >
> > It's two separate subsystems. There's a lot of non-tracing aspects of
> > performance events: it does profiling, counting, latency analysis, etc.
> > The tool is named 'perf', the subsystem is named 'performance events',
> > and the most typical workflows dont do any tracing.
> >
> > And i beg to differ about the size of the communities. It's just been
> > added upstream...
> >
> > Also, what is the policy for adding new lists to vger.kernel.org? If a
> > subsystem maintainer asks for a list named after a core kernel
> > subsystem, how frequently is it rejected, and on what basis?
> >
> > I find it sad that such an arbitrary looking negative decision from you
> > forces a user list away from vger. I wouldnt mind it to be closed if it
> > has no significant traffic after a year or lifetime or so - many vger
> > lists have almost no traffic to begin with.
> >
> > Also, i cannot help but to observe the fact that you've fought the 
> > original perfcounters project in a very ugly and public way less 
> > than a year ago. Dont you think that you 'deciding' this matter in 
> > such a negative fashion is a conflict of interest?
> >
> > ? ? ? ?Ingo
> 
> Yikes - Ingo, I don't want to spawn a long thread here about what to 
> call the list, but as a native English speaker, I think that 
> "linux-trace-users" sounds much nicer than "linux-tracing-users".

That argument i can and will accept of course ...

The "sorry, i ignored you twice and now it's unfortunately too late" 
excuse given by David i will not ;-)

Note that this mail you replied to was about 
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, which David refused to create, 
suggesting that perf users should mail to 
linux-trace-users@vger.kernel.org instead. (which is a curious argument 
- if you use a tool named 'perf', or if you are using PAPI to count 
events, would it occur to you to mail to that list?)

	Ingo