Hello Konstantin,

On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 11:28:30AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 05:31:22PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev via RT wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 05:52:53AM -0400, Uwe Kleine-König via RT wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I didn't hear back from you in reply to my request from three weeks ago.
> > > > Is this still on your radar and I just need some more patience?
> > > 
> > > I still didn't hear anything back from you. The ticket on
> > > rt.linuxfoundation.org is still marked as "new".
> > > 
> > > Following https://korg.wiki.kernel.org/userdoc/lore I'm currently in the
> > > step "Wait till you receive a response", but since I'm there since more
> > > than eight weeks I wonder if there is a problem on your side?
> > 
> > Hello, and sorry for radio silence. I wasn't deliberately trying to 
> > stall -- I was just trying to figure out the best way to approach this.  
> > While it's true that there are some things on lore.kernel.org that 
> > aren't *directly* related to the kernel, we nevertheless try to stick to 
> > lists that are either about low-level kernel subsystems, or about 
> > various tools used for kernel development, or at least have predominant 
> > topics that are close to the above two categories. The trouble with 
> > ptxdist is that it doesn't really fit inside those boundaries, so I am 
> > not sure whether it makes sense for it to live on lore.kernel.org.
> > 
> > Above all, I'd like to avoid turning lore.kernel.org into a central 
> > resource that becomes a hard dependency for projects the same way gmane 
> > was -- so much so, that when it disappeared, it caused serious ripple 
> > across the open-source fabric.
> > 
> > We are encouraging others to set up their own instances of public-inbox, 
> > and would prefer to mirror the resulting git repositories instead (and 
> > offer indexing/searching capabilities) instead of doing archival on our 
> > end. This is the approach we're taking with Yocto, and I would encourage 
> > you to investigate the same option, as this would avoid making 
> > lore.kernel.org a hard dependency for your project.
> > 
> > I hope that we'll be able to roll out our aggregated mirroring/indexing 
> > service closer to mid-year -- and when that happens, we'll be happy to 
> > mirror your lists and offer them alongside all others.
> 
> I'd like to come back to this offer. We have setup our own public-inbox
> instances now for a while and mirroring them on lore.kernel.org would be
> great.
> 
> These are the links to our instances:
> 
> 	https://lore.barebox.org/barebox 
> 	https://lore.ptxdist.org/ptxdist
> 	https://lore.distrokit.org/distrokit
> 	https://lore.pengutronix.de/oss-tools
> 
> Is there anything else you need, some meta-data maybe?

I didn't hear back from you. I wonder if this mail didn't make it to a
mailbox that is read, or if it just fell through the (human) cracks.

It would be great to get these lists indexed on lore.kernel.org.

happy to get feedback
Uwe

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