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RSS Feeds for Mailing Lists and Newsgroups The community (thats you) have been asking us for RSS feeds for our Mailing Lists and newsgroups for awhile now (bug 107609, bug 106561, etc) and weve got them! It turns out that our mail archiver, Mhonarc, is a very versatile piece ...
Published On: 29 Aug (Source Feeds: http://eclipsewebmaster.blogspot.com/2007/08/rss-feeds-for-mailing-lists-an)
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Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: use relevant mailing lists linux-foundation.org> wrote:
Do you realize youve totally missed the point?
It isnt about what is fine in the Kernel Developers world, but what is fine
in the *USERS* world.
There are dozens of big businesses pushing Linux for Enterprise performance.
Rather than discussing the merit of those patches - some of which just
improve the performance of a specific application by 1 or 2 percent - they
get a nod and go into the kernel. But when a group of users that dont
represent one of those businesses says "Hey, this helps with problems I see
on my system" there is a big discussion and ultimately those patches get
rejected. Why? Because theyll give an example using a program that they see
causing part of the problem and be told "Use program X - it does things
differently and shouldnt cause the problem" or "But what causes the problem
to happen? The patch treats a symptom of a larger problem".
The fucked up part of that is that the (mass of) kernel developers will see a
similar report sa
Published On: 27 Jul (Source Feeds: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/561575)
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