Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:26:35 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | New mailing list for Linux kernel packagers |
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Hi,
I'd like to announce a new mailing list that has been just set up.
It is oriented toward anyone who is responsible for, or involved with, the packing up of the Linux kernel for a distro or other group of users.
The list is located at kernel-packagers@vger.kernel.org, and instructions on how to subscribe to it can be found at http://vger.kernel.org/ (it's the "standard" majordomo interface.)
The "charter" of the group is below.
If there are any questions about it, please let me know.
Please feel free to forward this information on to anyone that you thinks would find it useful.
thanks,
greg k-h
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I'd like to propose a new mailing list for anyone involved in packaging up the Linux kernel for a distro or for any other group of users.
In talking with a lot of different people who do this kind of thing, I've noticed a real need for a place for everyone to come together to try to share things that make their jobs easier. Such topics can include: - information about specific bugs that other distros might want to know about - general discussion or coordination between distro maintainers and -stable maintainers. - issues that are seen in packaging and other usages that might not pertain to upstream due to the age of the kernel that is being used. - discussions about how a distro can help out more with working with upstream. - possibly discussions about unifying bugzilla issues with the kernel.org bugzilla, although I think that might be better served on linux-kernel still.
This will be a vendor-neutral place, hopefully hosted in a neutral location to help foster some communication that today seems to be spread across irc channels and private email queries.
Also, a number of vendors (non-distros) have expressed interest in such a list, so I also think it would be acceptable to use it for: - a way for a single vendor to point out to all distros that they might want to pick up a specific bug fix that affects them. It is only acceptable for the engineers of these vendors to use this channel, not any marketing or product management types. This will _not_ replace any existing procedures that the different distros have in place for doing feature requests or bug reports to the different distros. It will only be a place where bugs that have already been fixed might be gently pointed out.
If the vendors (non-distros) abuse this list, I have no qualms about removing them from the list. Kernel packagers' conversations take much higher priority over individual company issues and concerns.
Note, this is NOT a place to announce security issues that should be embargoed, or coordinated. Or for security issues pertaining to the upstream kernel release. Or for patches that should be sent added to the -stable kernel tree. All of those things are already well covered by existing mailing lists today (vendor-sec, security@kernel.org and stable@kernel.org respectively.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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