linux-lvm list now open

Just FYI:

This list is now completely unmoderated. If you haven't been following the thread, a number of people got pissed off and decided to open a new ML, [email protected], when they couldn't get a response from us. This was an unfortunate misunderstanding, and hopefully it's resolved now. Please feel free to e-mail me with any questions or concerns you might have regarding this list if you don't get a response through the normal channels.

Regards,

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Having just a couple of days of vacation I got informed today that a number of people got pissed off and decided to open a new Linux LVM mailing list <[email protected]>.

Facts people complained about included:

1. people got dropped from the list

2. messages bouncing

3. lack of (small) LVM patches to the Linux kernel

4. submitted patches being ignored

WRT points 1 and 2:
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our Linux LVM mailing list <[email protected]> is now completely open in order to avoid such kind of problems in the future.

We apologize for any kind of trouble this caused in the past!

We kindly ask everybody to stay at <[email protected]> or to join it in order to avoid a mailing list split.

Thanks a lot!

WRT point 3:
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we will regard the Linus kernel as *the* repository for LVM driver changes rather than our public CVS repository from now on!

In order to ease this migration we are working to create a bunch of small patches to submit them to the comunity.

We will announce when they are available ASAP and would appreciate if people like Alan Cox, Andrea Arcangeli and Andreas Dilger could check them *before* we start submitting them to Linus.

Thanks a lot in advance for your support.

WRT point 4:
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a lot of patches send in by the comunity have been included in the actual LVM source.
We appreciate all your valuable related work!

Nevertheless about 30 patches which would have changed too much have been postponed for LVM 1.1 *because* we are in a feature freeze since a couple of weeks heading to a production stable LVM 1.0.

The submitters have been informed about this fact.

We will make these postponed patches accessable to everybody and will discuss the status of future patches in the public on the list from now on in order to avoid any further lack of information here.

None of the patches which showed up on the lvm mailing lists have been discarded without notice!

General statement:
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Linux LVM is a Sistina GPL project and there's no danger at all that we want to change its GPL nature!

We apologize for any inconveniences and kindly ask everybody to continue to help us making a better Linux LVM.

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

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Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Sistina Software Inc.
Senior Consultant/Developer                       Am Sonnenhang 11
                                                  56242 Marienrachdorf
                                                  Germany
[email protected]                           +49 2626 141200
                                                       FAX 924446
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I'll be glad to help look over them.

Same here, the important thing is that we actually get this patch flow going. And hopefully in the future as well :)

Jens Axboe

Thanks Alan :-)

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

*** Software bugs are stupid.
    Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them ***

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Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Sistina Software Inc.
Senior Consultant/Developer                       Am Sonnenhang 11
                                                  56242 Marienrachdorf
                                                  Germany
[email protected]                           +49 2626 141200
                                                       FAX 924446
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Thanks and yep.
We learned that leasson now. Hopefully ;-)

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

*** Software bugs are stupid.
    Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them ***

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Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Sistina Software Inc.
Senior Consultant/Developer                       Am Sonnenhang 11
                                                  56242 Marienrachdorf
                                                  Germany
[email protected]                           +49 2626 141200
                                                       FAX 924446
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I think the general sentiment is that LVM is a Linux project, currently being managed by Sistina.

Also, since you have merged patches from other you no longer can change the license since Sistina is not the sole copyright holder.

Wichert.

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