This is my correspondence with David, aka postmaster@vger. At this point, I need someone else (Marek, etc.) to contact David if we are to move forward with VGER.
Jacob
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Hello, I'm looking for a new mailing list host for the B.A.T.M.A.N. project (http://open-mesh.net/). Batman is two mesh networking tools, one a kernel module and the other a user-space approach. We would like to host at VGER; what is the procedure to create a new list?
I'm sure your project is very interesting, but it falls short of the scope for having the list crated on vger.
Generally, we host lists for kernel projects and their tools for which they are already upstream or for which their upstream acceptance is imminent.
I've never seen the BATMAN kernel bits even submitted for review on netdev@vger.kernel.org and getting your code upstream via submission there would be a prerequesite before we could be discussing a mailing list on vger.
I'm not even sure the getting your kernel bits upstream is even something you want, or whether the networking maintainer (that's me :-) would consider your code and approach acceptable.
Sorry. </quote>