Re: kernel maintenance
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 05:19:34PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> "Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:29:52PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> >> As I've mentioned to Herbert Xu privately, I believe kernel maintenance
> >> should be done by a group. I have yet to see an example of group
> >> maintenance being worse than package maintenance by an individual, and as
> >> the gnome group has proven, there can be quite an improvement. My suggestion
> >> is to form an alioth kernel packaging project. I am looking for other
> >> folks interested in helping maintain the debian kernel.
> >>
> >
> > Me too, but I saw that the first step in this direction (i.e. the debian-kernel ML)
> > apparently is missing its goal. There are very few messages on it, and
> > all are users-related. I have the suspect that a general consensus on
> > kernel-management needs yet to be reached. And honestly I don't know
> > how, if people who should be interested in this matter do not discuss it
> > at all...
> >
> > --
> > Francesco P. Lovergine
>
> I guess every kernel-image, kernel-module and kernel-patch maintainer
> should be asked to join the list. I suspect many don't know it exists.
>
I already contacted a bounce of DDs at time of list approvation.
And mailed this list a couple of times.
Unfortunately having a list of those people is not so easy. Do you
suggest to post on every debian-<arch> list for porters?
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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