The kernel-janitor-discuss archives on
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2314 seem to be
spam-filled. I’m tempted to work on the balancing-functions task, as
that doesn’t require too much hardware knowledge, but don’t know whom
to check for sync. Besides, I’m working with an ancient list.

Gmane is better. http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.linux.kernel.janitors/last=/force_load=t

Oh, that’s because it’s now kernel-janitors@osdl.org