[ANNOUNCE] xfstests: new mailing list

Lukáš Czerner lczerner at redhat.com
Fri May 16 03:55:22 CDT 2014


On Fri, 16 May 2014, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 01:53:20 -0700
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>
> To: Luk?? Czerner <lczerner at redhat.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>, Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com>,
>     fstests at vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org,
>     linux-ext4 at vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs at vger.kernel.org, xfs at oss.sgi.com
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfstests: new mailing list
> 
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:48:42AM +0200, Luk?? Czerner wrote:
> > > > As requested I've created a new mailing list for xfstests
> > > > development and discussion. Reflecting the fact that the test
> > > > harness is not really XFS specific anymore, the list is:
> > > > 
> > > > 	fstests at vger.kernel.org
> > > 
> > > Isn't there an "x" missing somewhere?
> > 
> > It's intentional and it is "Reflecting the fact that the test
> > harness is not really XFS specific anymore", even though the test
> > suite itself keep the name xfstests.
> > 
> > This way it's more obvious to people that this is in fact not xfs
> > specific.
> 
> Having the name different from the project it is for is stupid.  Either
> rename the test suite, or use the same name for the mailing list.

Renaming the test suite is a good option if we can agree on this.

-Lukas



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