From: Zvi Effron <zeffron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 12:28:52 -0500 > On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:19 AM Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> Question to people subscribed to xdp-newbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing >> list. As you likely have noticed, patches and kbuild-bot is sending >> XDP related kernel stuff to this mailing list. This is caused by being >> listed in the kernel MAINTAINERS file[1]. >> > > I cast my vote for both. Having the named newbies channel send many, > many messages with kernel patches is intimidating to new people (and > somewhat spammy) which makes it harder to convince my team to sign up > for the list. At the same time, I've appreciated being able to see > what's happening on patches as well as questions and discussions. > > Would it make sense/be possible to create a mailing list for the > maintainers file and discussions on patches that is separate from the > newbies channel? I have to say, the newbies channel is the only newbie > friendly kernel mailing list I've seen, and it's a big part of why I > pushed for my company to use XDP over DPDK. The bpf and netdev lists act as incubators for XDP discussion, so I don't know if it's worth making an xdp-devel or something like that.
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