Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:41:22 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: mailing list for trace users |
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* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:48:23 +0200 > > > > > * David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > > > >> From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> > >> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:16:22 -0400 > >> > >> > What are people's thoughts about creating a linux-trace-users > >> > mailing list on vger.kernel.org? > >> > >> I've created this list. > > > > btw., could you please change the name to linux-tracing-users? > > That's the name of the subsystem and the name of the activity as > > well. A 'trace' is just (one) end result of that activity. > > No, the name is arbitrary and people are already propagating the > existience of the name that has been chosen already. > > SOrry.
David, i have asked for the proper name _BEFORE_ you have created it, yesterday. I also asked you again today to change the name _minutes_ after you mailed about the sucky 'linux-trace-users@vger.kernel.org' name. You ignored all that.
I dont know about you, but the activity is 'tracing' not 'trace'. People mailing to that list want to talk about 'tracing' - not about a 'trace'. What is a 'trace user'? It makes no sense and is a misnomer.
The subsystem entry in MAINTAINERS clearly says:
TRACING M: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> M: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> M: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git tracing/core S: Maintained
It's no secret that you and me dont get along too well and have been involved in a number of very public spats in the past year or so.
I do think your actions here are designed to hurt the tracing (and also the perf events) subsystems just because i'm co-maintaining them, and i think that you are in a heavy conflict of interest over it.
You should have recused yourself from this decision - i suspect there's other, less biased people outside of you who can create new mailing lists on vger.kernel.org. They might refuse my request with some real reason.
Ingo
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