Quote of the week

Previously, all of the -rc patches have been sent to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org. That turns out to be a lovely way to stress-test email servers both on the sending, and receiving side.

The vger postmasters have done a valiant job in fixing up all sorts of crazy issues that this has caused over the years, moving jobs to different machines, moving some receiver domains to separate queues or machines, and trying to debug loony gmail server issues. They have, and continue to, do a wonderful job at all of this.

But the stable patch bombs were causing problems, no matter what. To help try to alleviate the overall mail load on the main linux-kernel list, I am now NOT sending all of the patches to lkml, only the -rc announcements.