Re: [ptxdist] [Kernel.org Helpdesk #86171] [linuxfoundation.org #86171] Re: Archive ptxdist@pengutronix.de on lore.kernel.org?

["Konstantin Ryabitsev via RT" <kernel-helpdesk@rt.linuxfoundation.org>]

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.

-K


_______________________________________________
ptxdist mailing list
ptxdist@pengutronix.de