> Normally, not long but I've been waiting for the dust to settle
> on the proposed reorganization of the linux bug groups and projects
> being spearheaded by Paul Jackson and Craig Dunwoody. If you
> haven't seen it, I believe the current proposal is at:
> /hosts/sam.engr/usr/people/pj/etc/linux-bugs/linux-bugs
>
> Notice there already is a bug group called
> linux-mips64 linux on o200
> which apparently is not currently being used and being proposed
> to be deleted; the bug group's leader is currently
> Srinivasa Thirumalachar (sprasad) in Steve Neuener's group.
> There is also a linux-mips64 project and sgi.bugs.linux-mips64
> news group ("track all issues related to mips64 linux"), none
> of which seem to being used right now.
>
> Sounds like these might overlap or cover exactly the same
> area? John, can you use these existing ones? Or should they
> be renamed?
I am cc'ing the "linux-origin" mailing list.
We've had prior email discussions about what project/group/newsgroup
names to use. What we are searching for is the optimum catch-all
newsgroup for: Linux on Mips64 on O200 and O2000 (aka Origin) platforms.
The intention is to capture bugs/RFEs/Issues/Tasks that are both
Linux/mips64 (pure software) and Linux/Origin (platform-specific issues,
like drivers). The feeling was that linux-mips64 had the appearance of
being too pure-software in nature, despite the group's description of
"linux on o200".
And the final rationale is that we have a mailing list,
linux-origin@xxxxxxxxxxx, that purports to discuss these matters. Not
everyone in the Linux/Mips64/Origin project are inside the SGI firewall.
That's the rationale for a linux-origin project. As for what to do
about linux-mips64, who created that group/project?
John Hawkes
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