Hi Andi et al. On Monday 12 June 2006 21:07, Andi Kleen wrote: > Hallo, > > Some administrativa. > > In the last time I've posted all patches I sent to Linus > at [email protected] at least once. I did this because this list is > relatively low volume and I tended to get some useful feedback from the > people subscribed here. > > However I heard some rumours that I scared people away > from the list with the many patches. > > I also planned to post patches more often to get better > turnaround for reviews on changed patches. > > We still have a patches@x86-64 mailing list on x86-64.org which > is mostly unused. If I moved the big patch floods over there, > would the people who do reviews subscribe there? Please comment. I'll subscribe. (As in reply to the comment below...) I didn't know this site or these lists existed. Regards, Nigel > Also I'll probably start x86_64-* patchkit releases again. Currently > my working dir on ftp.firstfloor.org is directly going into -mm* and > that sometimes causes problems because it is not as well tested as it would > be if a larger audience has run it. Also there are often non trivial > interactions with the many patches in -mm* and it's hard to figure > out where a problem comes from. So it looks like some separate > testing would be better. > > I hope people would be still interested in running x86_64-* patchkits. > > Also my feeling is that I need to involve linux-kernel more. It seems > the majority of x86-64 users don't even know now this mailing list > exists, so they don't review or test the latest releases. Also > the traffic here seems to be less and less now except for me > (or do I just imagine that?) > > I suppose posting all patches there would be too much though, but > at least the announcements should be going there. I still think > it's valuable to have some kind of separate x86-64 list because > linux-kernel is just too much to keep up with and it would > drown valuable bug reports etc. in the general noise. > > Any feedback from x86-64 contributors on how to organize this better > welcome. > > -Andi > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Nigel, Michelle and Alisdair Cunningham 5 Mitchell Street Cobden 3266 Victoria, Australia
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