From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To: users@linux.kernel.org, ksummit@lists.linux.dev
Subject: RFC: switching "THE REST" in MAINTAINERS away from linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 10:33:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231106-venomous-raccoon-of-wealth-acc57c@nitro> (raw)
Hello, all:
About 70% of all vger traffic is linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ("LKML"), which
is explained by the following 2 facts:
1. There are ~2900 subscribers to that list
2. It is added to all patches because it has "F: *" in MAINTAINERS
In the past month alone that list received 33,000 posts, which translates to
about 3.1 million messages delivered daily. This has pretty critical
downsides:
- due to the sheer volume of messages, LKML is generally seen as useless for
holding any actual discussions
- people tend to subscribe gmail accounts to it and then filter out what they
don't want
- due to gmail's quota policies, this generally results in anywhere from 50K to
200K messages stuck in the queue all trying to deliver to gmail and being
deferred with "this account is receiving too much mail"
For this reason, I propose switching the "F: *" entry in MAINTAINERS
("THE REST") to patches@lists.linux.dev instead. This list differs from LKML
in the following important aspects:
- it allows unrestricted posting, but
- all subscriptions must be pre-moderated, with the goal to only allow bot
accounts to receive patches sent to that list (e.g. currently only the 0-day
bot is subscribed)
- it is made available via public-inbox/lei and anonymous POP3, so those who
want to still be able to have it delivered into their Gmail inbox will be
able to set it up via POP3 import functionality (docs forthcoming)
This should improve the situation as follows:
- reduce the traffic seen on LKML to more reasonable volumes
- eventually get things to the point where sending something to
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org will be a reasonable action and not just
screaming into the void (spitting into hurricane-force gale?)
- unclog the outgoing queues and speed up mail delivery for everyone
Please let me know your thoughts. I will also be happy to discuss this at the
upcoming kernel/maintainer summit.
-K
next reply other threads:[~2023-11-06 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-06 15:33 Konstantin Ryabitsev [this message]
2023-11-06 15:43 ` RFC: switching "THE REST" in MAINTAINERS away from linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Joe Perches
2023-11-06 15:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2023-11-06 16:05 ` [workflows]RFC: " Steven Rostedt
2023-11-06 16:29 ` Miquel Raynal
2023-11-06 17:45 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-11-08 16:19 ` Joe Perches
2023-11-08 16:44 ` Mark Brown
2023-11-08 18:16 ` Joe Perches
2023-11-08 19:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-11-08 19:14 ` Joe Perches
2023-11-08 19:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-11-08 20:07 ` [workflows]Re: " Steven Rostedt
2023-11-08 20:14 ` Joe Perches
2023-11-08 20:36 ` Joe Perches
2023-11-08 20:49 ` Joe Perches
2023-11-08 20:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-11-08 21:04 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-11-08 21:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-11-08 20:41 ` Joe Perches
2023-11-09 11:21 ` Mark Brown
2023-11-09 11:29 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-11-09 8:32 ` Dan Carpenter
2023-11-09 9:27 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-11-09 17:14 ` Alex Elder
2023-11-09 17:25 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-11-09 19:11 ` Joe Perches
2023-11-09 19:38 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-11-09 23:16 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-11-10 0:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-11-10 17:04 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-10 17:24 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-11-10 17:55 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-10 17:24 ` Rob Herring
2023-11-10 18:04 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-09 15:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-11-09 16:08 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-11-09 16:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-11-06 16:11 ` RFC: " Eric W. Biederman
2023-11-06 17:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-06 17:41 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-11-09 3:55 ` Ian Kelling
2023-11-11 16:57 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-11-07 4:04 ` Willy Tarreau
2023-11-06 17:21 ` Eric Wong
2023-11-06 17:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2023-11-09 14:24 ` Naveen N Rao
2023-11-06 17:23 ` Richard Weinberger
2023-11-06 20:52 ` Randy Dunlap
2023-11-06 21:37 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-06 22:52 ` Pavel Machek
2023-11-07 9:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-11-07 10:15 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-11-07 10:42 ` Greg KH
2023-11-07 12:14 ` Pratyush Yadav
2023-11-07 12:47 ` Julia Lawall
2023-11-07 13:18 ` Dan Carpenter
2023-11-07 13:23 ` Pratyush Yadav
2023-11-07 16:35 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-11-07 16:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-11-07 16:51 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-11-10 10:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-11-07 10:47 ` Mark Brown
2023-11-07 13:24 ` Dan Carpenter
2023-11-08 20:04 ` Bird, Tim
2023-11-08 21:03 ` Luck, Tony
2023-11-08 21:04 ` James Bottomley
2023-11-08 21:18 ` Johannes Berg
2023-11-08 21:30 ` Rob Herring
2023-11-21 14:53 ` Joe Perches
2023-11-21 18:08 ` Greg KH
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