Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2993120AbXEBNN1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 09:13:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2993123AbXEBNN1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 09:13:27 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:34272 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993120AbXEBNN0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 09:13:26 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <46388E63.9010409@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 15:13:07 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070408 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robert P. J. Day" CC: Neil Brown , "John Anthony Kazos Jr." , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Andre Tomt , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: so ... what *are* candidates for removal? References: <46375D1C.4050404@tomt.net> <10590.1178037443@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <4637C04E.4070306@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <46385EF8.8040005@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <17976.31592.666183.353731@notabene.brown> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1437 Lines: 38 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2007, Neil Brown wrote: > >> Unfortunately, this community is not founded on the concept of >> 'wiki'. It is founded on the concept of 'email'. That is were most >> discussions happen. >> >> So if you want to start a discussion (and your topic certainly seems >> relevant) I suspect you will get more participation if you keep it >> in the mailing list. > > you have it backwards -- i deliberately chose a wiki to get this > discussion *off* the LKML. given the traffic volume here, and given > that kernel code removal isn't what most people consider a high > priority, i'm guessing most folks here are monumentally uninterested > in the discussion. [...] IMO you are both right and wrong in your own ways. I agree with Neil that you* have to go to the people who are concerned. I agree with you that LKML will often not be the place where you* find them. (Still, you* have to find them; it's not that they have to find your wiki discussion.) *) "you" = whoever has the drive and persistence, and is connected enough with the communities to help in feature removal processes -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-= ---=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/