Re: mailing list for trace users

[John Kacur]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:40 PM, John Kacur <jkacur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> * David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:47:25 +0200
>>>
>>> > Could you please also create the linux-perf-users list, for perf
>>> > events and the perf tool related user questions? (We have asked for
>>> > this before but must have gotten lost somewhere)
>>>
>>> I think your communities are similar enough and small enough that you
>>> could share this list.
>>
>> It's two separate subsystems. There's a lot of non-tracing aspects of
>> performance events: it does profiling, counting, latency analysis, etc.
>> The tool is named 'perf', the subsystem is named 'performance events',
>> and the most typical workflows dont do any tracing.
>>
>> And i beg to differ about the size of the communities. It's just been
>> added upstream...
>>
>> Also, what is the policy for adding new lists to vger.kernel.org? If a
>> subsystem maintainer asks for a list named after a core kernel
>> subsystem, how frequently is it rejected, and on what basis?
>>
>> I find it sad that such an arbitrary looking negative decision from you
>> forces a user list away from vger. I wouldnt mind it to be closed if it
>> has no significant traffic after a year or lifetime or so - many vger
>> lists have almost no traffic to begin with.
>>
>> Also, i cannot help but to observe the fact that you've fought the
>> original perfcounters project in a very ugly and public way less than a
>> year ago. Dont you think that you 'deciding' this matter in such a
>> negative fashion is a conflict of interest?
>>
>>        Ingo
>
> Yikes - Ingo, I don't want to spawn a long thread here about what to
> call the list, but
> as a native English speaker, I think that "linux-trace-users" sounds
> much nicer than
> "linux-tracing-users".
>
> Perhaps, trace is an adjective describing the kind of users, in any
> case, it doesn't
> sound like "one trace" - so, could we go this one?
> (if you insist on linux-tracing then you have to drop the word "users")
>
> John
>

That's funny, boast about my credentials as a native English speaker, and then
make a mistake.

s/go this one/go with this one
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