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>
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.
Either we need to find another list server, or we explain we have been talking to GregKH and are planning to go via staging.
We have a catch-22 here with vger. It seems like you need to be near for submission to get an account, but we don't really want to submit until we have an open list.
What ever we decide, we should explain the situation to his guy. As net maintainer he has the power to decide if we ever make it out of staging into the net part of mainline.
Andrew
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 09:15:39PM -0600, Jacob Marble wrote:
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.
I will contact David. I assume this is David Miller.
Andrew
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