K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

@hughsie@mastodon.social @swick@hachyderm.io @coderabbitai@mastodon.social yes, the Co-Authored-By tag litters commits with a bogus email address as well and should just never be used.

@sjvn that explains the constant chip on her shoulder.

@jpab@mastodon.gamedev.place Are you allowed to fork it and make changes? Because I think we'd all like that.

"b4 review" has grown by leaps and bounds. You should try it out if you haven't yet and give me feedback before I ship it!

b4 0.15.0 is out. Lots of new features in this one, including the whole new "b4 review" workflow.

https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/releases.html#v0-15

https://asciinema.org/a/890396

b4 bugs tui demo -- it's still an early prototype, but it's showing some of the UI for importing a bug from lore, adding a comment, replying to the reporter.

"b4 bugs tui" landed in master, but I'm out of time today to write an announcement. Just some very basic scant details here: https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/maintainer/bugs.html

More tomorrow, along with a proposal how I hope this will help replace bugzilla and augment "just send an email".

Congrats to Julia Lawall for making it to the LF Technical Advisory Board!

https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/20251221125206.99296-1-ojeda@kernel.org/

b4 review landed in b4 master. I'll post a bunch of stuff tomorrow announcing it, but if you want to give it an early whirl, go ahead. The docs are a bit scant, but they should get you started.

You'll need python textual framework. To start, run "b4 review enroll" in a repo where you'll be reviewing code. Then run "b4 review tui". After that, you can run "b4 review track " to pull in a series to review.

Please poke around and break things. I'm sure that won't be too hard.

b4 review getting started documentation, with screencasts:

https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/reviewer/getting-started.html

Still requires unreleased master version -- I'm hoping for some initial tests before I release 0.15.

TLDR: use korgalore to bypass mailing list delivery problems

If you're a Gmail or Outlook user and you're subscribed to high-volume mailing lists, you're probably routinely missing mail. Korgalore is a tool that monitors mailing lists via lore.kernel.org and can import mail directly into your inbox so you don't miss any of it. You can also couple korgalore with lei for powerful filtering features that can reduce the firehose to what you'd actually find useful.

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/tracking-kernel-development-with-korgalore

@GossiTheDog "I'm bigger than the Beatles."

This post on post-quantum cryptography sent to the gnupg-users list is both amusing and insightful:

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2026-April/068253.html

Whoever called it "ipv8" missed a golden opportunity to call it "ipv6-7".

Here's a prototype of "b4 review" with a nicer textual ui. What do you think?

https://asciinema.org/a/776900

@stux haven't you played "Forbidden West"? They'll just become a future-me problem.

I have to tap the sign.

@hyeyoo @kernellogger @vbabka CHILDREN! CHILDREN STOP THIS!

@haoli @hyeyoo @kernellogger @vbabka Harry Yoo-Know-Hoo

EU traffic to lore.kernel.org is now served by two OVH-hosted nodes, one in Strasbourg, another in Warsaw.

Huge thanks to OVH for their support!

There was an unfortunate error while changing the kernel.org primary/secondary mirroring infrastructure, which resulted in the /pub tree suddenly becoming empty. No data was lost, just public mirror copies. Everything is now being restored, but deletes are fast and restores are slow, so thank you for your patience! EDITED: You can follow the official incident here: https://status.linuxfoundation.org/incidents/3y1k8b4ky71t

@mhoye@cosocial.ca This post builds up a straw man just to set it on fire. The logos you posted are from companies that donate directly to kernel.org (not Linux Foundation). Kernel.org is a separate legal entity from Linux Foundation and is a registered charitable organization. Donating to kernel.org is tax deductible whereas contributing to the Linux Foundation isn't. These companies are gladly and willingly donating their resources to kernel.org specifically. The companies supporting kernel.org operations are: Akamai: provides free hosting to git.kernel.org and lore.kernel.org. Constellix: provides free DNS hosting with failover and geoDNS. Fastly: provides CDN services. Servers.com: provides mirrors.kernel.org hosting (the two nodes that we currently have in operation). Google: provides a git mirror at kernel.googlesource.com. Red Hat: donates RHEL licenses. Linux Foundation: employs staff operating kernel.org The reason I'm asking for more hosting opportunities for mirrors.kernel.org is two-fold: it's a community service that hosts distros, and not so much the kernel. Providing mirroring opportunities for distros is not our primary charter -- we provide kernel archives, not distro binaries. However, we've operated mirrors.kernel.org for 30-odd years and if we stop running the service, parts of the Internet break (it's a fact). So, we continue operating it and will do so for the foreseeable future. The second reason is because for many hosting companies it makes a lot of sense to donate hardware and bandwidth to a charitable organization like kernel.org -- for reasons of tax deductions and because it often benefits them directly (their own cloud hosting can then benefit from a tier-1 mirror in their datacentre). So, it makes commercial sense for them to donate to kernel.org as a tax write-off as opposed to for the Linux Foundation to pay for hosting, plus they get other perks, such as getting a bit of publicity, a good standing with fellow nerds, etc. Your post is unnecessarily inflammatory and poorly informed.

@mhoye@cosocial.ca Sure, but as evidenced, they *are* actually giving something back to us -- so these are the good guys. Let's get mad about all the 99.99% of free software contributors who have not received anything out of donating their time and expertise to the open source ecosystem.

@dirkhh@hachyderm.io @timbray@mastodon.cloud I ended up just following the Twitter accounts I'm interested in via Feedly. I honestly don't have a good reason to open it up any more.

@rebane2001@infosec.exchange technically, it will only steal your file, not destroy it. Which, I guess, means that :> is a corvid.

@hackillu@mas.to A surprising number of services hardcode mirrors.kernel.org as the source where they can obtain packages for deployments. They really shouldn't, but they do. Last time there was an extended outage on our side, a lab technician from a major EU hospital emailed me to say that it broke their ability to use some kind of lab equipment because it somehow required downloading a perl package from our CPAN mirror. Should we start occasionally breaking mirrors.kernel.org so that people identify and fix these dependencies? Maybe. But I'm slightly terrified of unintended consequences that may impact real people's lives.

@jbowen@mast.hpc.social @austinspires@mastodon.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca Fastly is already doing a lot for us, for which we love them! However, they are not a great fit for mirrors.kernel.org. I do thank you for the suggestion, though!

@creepy_owlet@mastodon.online @mo@mastodon.ml @pq1r@tech.lgbt @eunews@mastodon.social and yet, people get mad when you refer to it as the "state mandatory genital registry" (which is what it is)

@jeroen@secluded.ch @jwz@mastodon.social @gregkh@social.kernel.org it's just a mirror, I don't use GitHub for anything beyond that.

@jeroen@secluded.ch @jwz@mastodon.social @gregkh@social.kernel.org /me points at the "bugs" tab.