Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:42:21 +0200 | Subject | Re: mailing list for trace users | From | John Kacur <> |
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:40 PM, John Kacur <jkacur@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: >> >> * David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: >> >>> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> >>> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:47:25 +0200 >>> >>> > Could you please also create the linux-perf-users list, for perf >>> > events and the perf tool related user questions? (We have asked for >>> > this before but must have gotten lost somewhere) >>> >>> I think your communities are similar enough and small enough that you >>> could share this list. >> >> It's two separate subsystems. There's a lot of non-tracing aspects of >> performance events: it does profiling, counting, latency analysis, etc. >> The tool is named 'perf', the subsystem is named 'performance events', >> and the most typical workflows dont do any tracing. >> >> And i beg to differ about the size of the communities. It's just been >> added upstream... >> >> 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? >> >> I find it sad that such an arbitrary looking negative decision from you >> forces a user list away from vger. I wouldnt mind it to be closed if it >> has no significant traffic after a year or lifetime or so - many vger >> lists have almost no traffic to begin with. >> >> Also, i cannot help but to observe the fact that you've fought the >> original perfcounters project in a very ugly and public way less than a >> year ago. Dont you think that you 'deciding' this matter in such a >> negative fashion is a conflict of interest? >> >> Ingo > > Yikes - Ingo, I don't want to spawn a long thread here about what to > call the list, but > as a native English speaker, I think that "linux-trace-users" sounds > much nicer than > "linux-tracing-users". > > Perhaps, trace is an adjective describing the kind of users, in any > case, it doesn't > sound like "one trace" - so, could we go this one? > (if you insist on linux-tracing then you have to drop the word "users") > > John >
That's funny, boast about my credentials as a native English speaker, and then make a mistake.
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