linux-kernel - Re: so ... what *are* candidates for removal?

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Message-ID: <17976.31592.666183.353731@notabene.brown>
Date:	Wed, 2 May 2007 21:52:08 +1000
From:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
Cc:	"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@...-k-j.com>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, Andre Tomt <andre@...t.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: so ... what *are* candidates for removal?

On Wednesday May 2, rpjday@...dspring.com wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2007, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> 
> argh.  the whole point of this discussion is to come to a *consensus*
> on what should be in that feature removal file.  there is no point in
> creating and submitting patches, either to update that file or remove
> kernel features, until enough people *agree*.
> 
> at the risk of being head-bangingly repetitive, that's what the wiki
> page is for:
> 
> http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Stuff_to_be_removed
> 
> go.  read.  comment.  update.  add.  remove.  it's a wiki.  don't make
> me pull this car over and explain it.  :-)

Unfortunately, this community is not founded on the concept of
'wiki'.  It is founded on the concept of 'email'.  That is were most
discussions happen.

So if you want to start a discussion (and your topic certainly seems
relevant) I suspect you will get more participation if you keep it in
the mailing list.

So post a list of features that are apparently due for removal and ask
"can I actually get rid of these" (or whatever you want to ask).  and
then base on the response, do something else, maybe a revised list,
maybe a patch, maybe send it again in CAPITALS because nobody notice
when it was in lower-case :-)

Wiki's certainly have there place, but I don't think this is it.

NeilBrown
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