[RFC] Time for a linux-kvm mailing list?

[RFC] Time for a linux-kvm mailing list?

[Bill Davidsen]

There doesn't seem to be a great place for KVM user questions, this is 
it, and kvm-devel seems a poor place for user questions, while the chat 
room is real time and depends on the question and the answer being in 
the same place at the same time.

Just a thought on getting a dialogue going in the right place.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

Re: [RFC] Time for a linux-kvm mailing list?

[Avi Kivity]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> There doesn't seem to be a great place for KVM user questions, this is 
> it, and kvm-devel seems a poor place for user questions, while the 
> chat room is real time and depends on the question and the answer 
> being in the same place at the same time.
>

kvm-devel is perfectly suitable for user queries.


> Just a thought on getting a dialogue going in the right place.
>

You could have started by posting your idea on kvm-devel, where kvm 
developers and users would actually see it.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.

Re: [RFC] Time for a linux-kvm mailing list?

[Bill Davidsen]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> There doesn't seem to be a great place for KVM user questions, this 
>> is it, and kvm-devel seems a poor place for user questions, while the 
>> chat room is real time and depends on the question and the answer 
>> being in the same place at the same time.
>>
>
> kvm-devel is perfectly suitable for user queries.
>
>
>> Just a thought on getting a dialogue going in the right place.
>>
>
> You could have started by posting your idea on kvm-devel, where kvm 
> developers and users would actually see it.
>
Why would I post it to a list where it's off-topic by list name? And how 
would anyone know that the list name can be ignored when so many other 
lists with "devel" in the name tell people with user questions to go 
elsewhere? Right now only users who ignore list names would even look there.

I was suggesting to improve user participation, since you don't think 
that's needed I'll stop trying to help. I guess since kvm needs more 
hardware you have fewer users and don't need user support list like xen.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

Re: [RFC] Time for a linux-kvm mailing list?

[Avi Kivity]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Why would I post it to a list where it's off-topic by list name? And 
> how would anyone know that the list name can be ignored when so many 
> other lists with "devel" in the name tell people with user questions 
> to go elsewhere? Right now only users who ignore list names would even 
> look there.
>

I added some text to the list description[1] to make it clear that user 
queries are not off-topic.


[1] http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Lists,_IRC

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Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.