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Director of Linux Foundation IT. Currently in charge of kernel.org infra.

This account is for Linux/Kernel/FOSS topics in general: #linux, #kernel, #foss, #git, #sysadmin, #infrastructure.

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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

All of you who are stressing about Mutt/NeoMutt dropping off precipitously in the graphs, that's because at some point it stopped advertising itself in the headers. Here's another graph where I excluded patches (and thus git-send-email/quilt/most of b4) -- and included clients that don't identify themselves via User-Agent or X-Mailer headers. You will notice the direct relationship between the "Mutt" bar shrinking and the "unknown" bar expanding starting with 2020. It's safe to say that most of the "unknown" in recent years is Mutt/NeoMutt clients.
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@monsieuricon I have never heard of "quilt" or "b4".

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A subset specifically showing tools used to post patches.
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

Lastly, 25 years of nerdiest mail clients ON ERF.
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

This one shows just people responding, deliberately not patch submissions (because Greg's and Sasha's stable patchbombs just dwarf everyone).

So, these are the people who are hitting "Reply All", and it's not even the full picture, because it only includes the LKML.
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@Anarcat gmail doesn't actually go down in the end, it's just obscured by kernel.org and linuxfoundation.org mails -- I expect those are stable patchbombs for the most part.
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

OH NO, I NERDED.
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@rw shouldn't it be <titel> ... </titel>
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@jzb I know, right? HOW?
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Total patch submissions : 29,519
Client identified       : 27,828  (94.3%)

Rank  Sending Tool                   Count   % of patches   % of identified
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1     git-send-email                 19323          65.5%             69.4%
2     b4                              7251          24.6%             26.1%
3     (unidentified)                  1691           5.7%              6.1%
4     Outlook                          645           2.2%              2.3%
5     quilt                            223           0.8%              0.8%
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

As of May-June, fully 25% of all patches posted to the LKML are sent with b4.

Yikes. :)
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@Farbs @Teaceratops I feel like I just finally met the person who put the ZA into the 2-word Scrabble list.
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

No, I don't want to "convert to table". No, I don't want "smart chips". Stop shoiving things down my throat that I don't want. I am happy with plain old boring cells and formulas.
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@toblux they should be redelivered, as the error returned should have been temporary. (Unless you actually see bounces, which shouldn't have happened.)
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@liw the marketplace vendor misunderstood my hotdog request. It was his wurst mistake.
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@haoli Yes, they suspended our account because they forgot that we don't pay via a credit card but via a wire transfer. After a 24 hour notice.

It should be restored soon.
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

I no longer recommend Migadu.
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Kernel Recipes 2026 registration will open on June 19. We will start publishing the conference schedule in coming days.

Stay tuned!

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@yura We actually have a "make a slingshot" session with scouts, but we obviously use tennis balls or those squishy "stress balls" for projectiles. :) Lots of "paracord rock sling" guides on youtube. Haven't done this for a few years now, but maybe during next camp in the fall.
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