From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E5809FB for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:45:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D7BD11E for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:45:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9CA22096D for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2015 18:45:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 15:45:08 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jason Cooper Message-ID: <20150711224508.GA25449@kroah.com> References: <20150710143641.GW4341@mwanda> <20150710160714.GL111846@vmdeb7> <20150710222351.GA28632@kroah.com> <20150711000034.GU111846@vmdeb7> <20150711001348.GA30675@kroah.com> <20150711055441.GA6316@sudip-PC> <20150711151844.GB23515@io.lakedaemon.net> <20150711164535.GB8411@kroah.com> <20150711193539.GF23515@io.lakedaemon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150711193539.GF23515@io.lakedaemon.net> Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Dan Carpenter Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 07:35:39PM +0000, Jason Cooper wrote: > 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. Nope, kernel-mentors: http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelMentors > > 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. We have that. > That doesn't seem to be the case on linux-newbie. Also, > linux-newbie doesn't seem to be kernel-specific. I don't know anything about linux-newbie, sorry. > 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. Great, feel free to join the kernel-mentors list and be amazed at the silence :) The fact that it's not well known might be one of the problems, but it has been tried, just pointing out that this isn't a new idea, not that it is an invalid one. good luck! greg k-h