Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | x86_64: x86-64 mailing lists / posting patchkits / x86-64 releases | Date | Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:07:54 +0200 |
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Hallo,
Some administrativa.
In the last time I've posted all patches I sent to Linus at discuss@x86-64.org 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.
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
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