We are pleased to announce the availability of a new mailing list service running under the new lists.linux.dev domain. The goal of this deployment is to offer a subscription service that:

prioritizes mail delivery to public-inbox archives available via lore.kernel.org

conforms to DMARC requirements to ensure subscriber delivery

makes minimal changes to email headers and no changes to the message body content for the purposes of preserving patch attestation

If you would like to host a Linux development mailing list on this platform, please see further details on the subspace.kernel.org site.

Why another mailing list service?

Linux development started in 1991 and has been ongoing for the past 30 years at an ever-increasing pace. Many popular code collaboration platforms have risen throughout these three decades -- and while some of them are still around, many others have shut down and disappeared without offering any way to preserve the history of the projects they used to host.

Development via mailed-in patches remains the only widely used mechanism for code collaboration that does not rely on centralized infrastructure maintained by any single entity. The Linux developer community sees transparency, independence and decentralization as core guiding principles behind Linux development, so it has deliberately chosen to continue using email for all its past and ongoing collaboration efforts.

What about vger.kernel.org?

The infrastructure behind lists.linux.dev supports multiple domains, so all mailing lists hosted on vger.kernel.org will be carefully migrated to the same platform while preserving current addresses, subscribers, and list ids. The only thing that will noticeably change is the procedure to subscribe and unsubscribe from individual lists. As majordomo is no longer maintained, we will instead switch to using separate subscribe/unsusbscribe addresses per each list.

There are no firm ETAs for this migration, but if you are currently subscribed to any mailing list hosted on vger.kernel.org, you will receive a message when the migration date is approaching.

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