From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: kernel.org extended outage - wait or use alternatives? Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:24:44 +0200 Message-ID: <1315729484.3174.7.camel@edumazet-laptop> References: <4E6C6BAA.3020701@computer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Ceuleers Return-path: Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:33958 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752802Ab1IKIYt (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:24:49 -0400 Received: by wwf22 with SMTP id 22so181793wwf.1 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:24:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E6C6BAA.3020701@computer.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le dimanche 11 septembre 2011 =C3=A0 10:04 +0200, Jan Ceuleers a =C3=A9= crit : > David, >=20 > I'm a mere observer of kernel development rather than an active=20 > participant in it. My observation is that networking development has = all=20 > but come to a standstill while we wait for master.kernel.org to come = back. >=20 > Linus is now using a github.com account; any reason why the same coul= d=20 > not apply to net and net-next, so that development can proceed? >=20 As an active kernel developer, I would vote for being thankful for this pause. Its always a good thing to relax and enjoy your time ;) I actually lost my main development trees because of nasty disk corruptions in 3.1-rc4, and wrong habit of not doing any backups... Oh well... More than a repository for net and net-next, we really want a working netdev mailing list. Anyway, everything is queued and you dont have to worry. http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/