Re: mailing list for trace users

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
	a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, fweisbec@gmail.com, acme@redhat.com,
	mhiramat@redhat.com, postmaster@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mailing list for trace users
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:02:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090923220223.GA29816@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090923.145407.65092836.davem@davemloft.net>

* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:30:20 +0200
> 
> > Also, what is the policy for adding new lists to vger.kernel.org? If 
> > a subsystem maintainer asks for a list named after a core kernel 
> > subsystem, how frequently is it rejected, and on what basis?
> 
> Ingo, relax, I'll create your list.

Thanks!

> What's really sad is that you don't attend enough conferences so that 
> you can meet face to face with people and you (and others) would as a 
> result avoid many unnecessarily heated discussions as a result.

I calmed down already ;-) Sorry about the tone - my remarks were clearly 
over the top - it felt really frustrating to get such a curt reply after 
months of failed attempts to create this list.

Thanks again for doing it. Development will happen on lkml as usual, but 
users/newbies generally prefer some topical-sounding email address to 
mail to, and for that one the naming does matter.

	Ingo