Should the kbuild list move to SourceForge?
Michael Elizabeth Chastain has posted a proposal to move the kbuild mailing list (which discusses the kernel configuration and building system) to a SourceForge project. He has a few reasons, but any kbuild reader will know the first one intuitively: spam routinely exceeds real postings on that list. With luck, moving to a site with better spam filtering would help to make the list usable again. The one objection to the move came in the form of this posting, which raised the concern that the free software world is becoming too dependent on SourceForge. But it just concerns me when a single company has the ability to (temporarily) freeze the development of half the world’s open-source software just by unplugging a roomful of servers, either voluntarily or not (think “court order”). This is a concern that LWN has raised in the past as well. This time, however, there was a semi-official response in the form of this message from Eric Raymond, who is on the VA Linux board of directors. Acco
