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On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 09:45:35AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 03:18:44PM +0000, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > Perhaps that burden could be reduced by a 'kernel-mentor@v.k.o' ML?
> 
> We already have such a mailing list, it's quite empty and quiet :(

Are you referring to linux-newbie?

  http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-newbie

If so, yes.  It's empty and quiet.

> In other words, this idea has been tried, maybe consider something else?

Well, the key piece is having a few experienced maintainers active on
the list.  That doesn't seem to be the case on linux-newbie.  Also,
linux-newbie doesn't seem to be kernel-specific.

We could address new users not knowing about it with a script.  Any
[PATCH] posts to a mailing list where the sender is a miss in the git
history bounces the email to the kernel-mentor list.

In case it wasn't obvious, I'd be willing to be one of those mentors if
I had a few others to rotate lead with.

thx,

Jason.