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. Nicolas _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
