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Message-ID: <20090923195955.GC19358@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:59:55 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	John Kacur <jkacur@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, fweisbec@...il.com, acme@...hat.com,
	mhiramat@...hat.com, postmaster@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mailing list for trace users


* John Kacur <jkacur@...il.com> wrote:

> > Yikes - Ingo, I don't want to spawn a long thread here about what to 
> > call the list, but as a native English speaker, I think that 
> > "linux-trace-users" sounds much nicer than "linux-tracing-users".
> >
> > Perhaps, trace is an adjective describing the kind of users, in any 
> > case, it doesn't sound like "one trace" - so, could we go this one? 
> > (if you insist on linux-tracing then you have to drop the word 
> > "users")
> >
> > John
> >
> 
> That's funny, boast about my credentials as a native English speaker, 
> and then make a mistake.
> 
> s/go this one/go with this one

I hope you are right about linux-trace-users sounding better to native 
speakers than linux-tracing-users - because it sure sounds awful to me
:-)

Any other English native speakers with an opinion one way or another? 

	Ingo
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