On 18.02.13 12:20 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> 
> > Since Peter and I were discussing this on IRC that led to this email,
> > here is a bit of context on the current behaviour:
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> 
> > wrote:
> > > Hi; does anybody else think it would be a good idea to move all
> > > the kernel patch email traffic off linaro-dev and onto a more
> > > kernel-specific mailing list (eg, linaro-kernel, maybe) ?
> > >
> > > A quick eyeball of a few pages of my gmail folder for linaro-dev
> > > shows that something like 75% of it is kernel devs patchbombing
> > > the list. You don't see huge floods of patches here for gcc or
> > > QEMU or any of the many other projects Linaro contributes to,
> > > so why all the kernel patches?
> > 
> > linaro-dev was supposed to be how we kept track of all development
> > activity that Linaro was involved in - it wasn't supposed to be
> > restricted only to kernel. IOW, someone could subscribe to this one
> > list to find out everything that Linaro was participating in.
> > 
> > So much so that it was baked into our guidelines for how to use git to
> > send patches to upstream projects[1]
> > 
> > Admittedly, those were early days and our contributions to upstream
> > projects have grown significantly since then. So it might be time to
> > revisit that policy.
> > 
> > > I think that moving these off to their own list would allow
> > > those who have a genuine interest in kernel internals to read
> > > and review these patches, and reduce the noise level on this
> > > (Linaro's most generic list) for everybody else.
> > >
> > > NB: I'm not suggesting "no kernel discussion here"; I just
> > > would like actual patchmail to go elsewhere...
> 
> For the record, I think what Peter is suggesting is reasonable. There 
> must be better ways for people to find out what Linaro is participating in 
> other than scaring them away from linaro-dev when they have no 
> interest in the patch details.

I second that.


> Nicolas
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