On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 11:22 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> On 9/20/2017 11:07 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 10:45 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 4/18/2017 2:59 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I'd like the maintainership summit list to be fairly small. Not
> > > > even 50 people. Maybe 30. A group that can actually sit in a
> > > > room for half a day and talk to each other about the issues
> > > > they have rather than being talked to. And talk literally about
> > > > *process* issues, not about any particular technical issues
> > > > within whatever subsystem. Bring up peeves or wishes for actual
> > > > process improvements?
> > > > 
> > > > Comments? People who should be involved? Or people who don't
> > > > have any particular issues and want to not be involved?
> > > 
> > > Hi Linus,
> > > 
> > > Do we have a final determination as to whether or not this is
> > > going to happen?  I got the impression from this thread that it
> > > was "tentative" and not certain.  If it's going to happen, I
> > > should probably get my travel request in.
> > 
> > We've collected the sponsor's money and paid for the space, so it's
> > as certain to happen as any previous kernel summit.
> 
> I knew the kernel summit was going to happen...

I took "this" in your email to refer to Maintainer Summit, so that's
what the above is about.

> >  The maintainer's summit is tacked on to a bigger kernel summit,
> > which is open to all and also has reserved space in Prague.
> 
> The question is whether or not this is going to happen...

Confused by what "this" is here, however: both the kernel summit and
the maintainer summit are happening.  The former merely requires a
OSSE+ELCE pass and the latter an invite.

James