From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B03D3514 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 14:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk (mezzanine.sirena.org.uk [106.187.55.193]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4489B167 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 14:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 15:21:49 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Bart Van Assche Message-ID: <20170426142149.vld4ahatg5xc6qsv@sirena.org.uk> References: <20188905.kHbMkj7sB6@avalon> <1834084.5qZ8rLimvk@avalon> <1492631703.3217.30.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <3f55980c-1e8d-c841-2555-472ed10eb2fc@sandisk.com> <20170425165632.5qvc62j2ex3h6rgg@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ie4p6zml6adj37or" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: ksummit , Dave Airlie , Greg Kroah-Hartman , David Miller , James Bottomley , Doug Ledford , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] "Maintainer summit" invitation discussion List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --ie4p6zml6adj37or Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 03:47:13AM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 04/25/17 09:56, Mark Brown wrote: > > This comes up most years... is a discussion likely to come up with > > anything new that's concretely actionable? > If priorities change over time and someone who had initially sufficient= =20 > time to be a kernel maintainer and later on that changes that's=20 > something I can understand. But what I do not understand is if someone=20 > no longer has enough time to be a kernel maintainer why he or she does=20 > not look for help and e.g. asks someone who has the required skills and= =20 > who is interested in this kind of work to become a co-maintainer? You'd have to ask the relevant people... based on the times I've looked at problematic subsystems it often seems that either people have completely vanished for whatever reason or there's very little other interest in the subsystem so no obvious candidates. I'm not saying that there isn't a problem, I'm just saying that it's not new and it doesn't seem like the situation changed much. --ie4p6zml6adj37or Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCAAdFiEEreZoqmdXGLWf4p/qJNaLcl1Uh9AFAlkArPwACgkQJNaLcl1U h9DcVAf9H1jAf0E19nG6phDCD86tGC+zy2YgQ+qopE2gfN1fmq/lyGM6kEgLrHFM 9oeYlew3FAVwXC1TT7ZVmUDjwDUDMf+3uRSg7D8XDMz48GrVQRtqa1qZOpSC50vB O1O0h1Brw/CGIQjM4Vlr8Zuv/0Ib5RxXXYavZfBLfeJvmnlnuHB+suO2QtUMives CDXhO1baQDBYklrUU4wrqeQ2ZO8E+vCcHc/XUgyXsYKocXOnikCNjsOGCXcUKEVK aK9kAIE18pWqnA2yzWzrofQgew+EAg1ONnfuTtThLsuiq1Lvd//qzodDelkxHXJU 4rBxtPToaHxAzOUfvlLJo+nvi0jL6Q== =Livd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ie4p6zml6adj37or--