On Tue 11 Apr 2006 at 03:02PM, Nils Nieuwejaar wrote:
> >> Peter Buckingham wrote:
> >> > There was some discussion about having a more technical mailing
> >> > list/community ala freebsd hackers/lkml/...
> >> >
> >> > Was there any progress made on that? I'm definitely interested in
> >> > discoverying/learning more about the internals of Solaris.
> >>
> >> It has been discussed, but there is some grumbling that
> >> opensolaris-discuss is still OK for this kind of discussion since we
> >> haven't reached the threshold of pain yet as far as traffic. There has
> >> also been a fair amount of this type of traffic on opensolaris-code,
> >> although that list should be going away soon...
> >
> > I would like to propose a highly technical kernel related mailing
> > list/project - name TBD (chosen via discussion) per the original (failed
> > community) proposal by Eric Lowe. Essentially I am proposing the "Eric
> > Lowe" project/list of his behalf or by proxy, if you will.
>
> One of these is already being created: the 'muskoka project'. It was
> proposed and approved a week or two ago, and should go live within
> another week or so. Eric is one of the initial moderators.
Can I ask a dumb question: why are we calling this "the muskoka
project"?
Naming a mailing list filled with technical kernel content after an obscure
lake in Canada seems maximally confusing to me, and would seem to make
it harder for people googling for information to find what they want.
It makes sense that a project destined to be integrated into a larger
codebase would have a codename.
Why isn't this named functionally? technical-journal,
kernel-tech-journal, etc. all spring to mind.
Also, the project seems to have mixed together the idea of a discussion,
virtual memory changes, and a library. Wouldn't it make more sense to
have a library project which is separate, and a VM project which is
also separate?
Confused,
-dp
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