In days of old, changes to the Fedora kernel would typically mean sending me a patch in an email. These days, now that we've got more than one fulltime Fedora kernel maintainer, it's meant I've had to educate people into adding Chuck onto the Cc: when people send me stuff. Rather than have to go through this process each time someone new joins the kernel team, creating a mailing list, and adding more people to a mailing list seems to make more sense.
Rather than have another internal @redhat list however, it makes more sense in the interests of openness to make this an external list that *anyone* can subscribe to should they feel motivated to do so.
So here it is: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
I'm sure there'll be additional purposes for the list over time, but off the top of my head, I come up with..
* Things like public decisions over config options, other packaging decisions, and just general 'direction'. A lot of decisions happen just inside my head right now, or in hallways on the rare occasions I make it to the office. With this list, hopefully I can get a little more of that info public, and surprise less people when things happen.
* We could also use it as a place for people to send patches that belong in Fedora (be they backported ones for older releases, or 'lets try this' type one-offs that may not belong upstream).
* We could also use it for bug-discussion and the like, although it wouldn't replace bugzilla, but instead compliment it.
* Userspace bits on the periphery of the kernel (mkinitrd etc).
What the list isn't for: * Anything that would be better discussed upstream at linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Dave