Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] community management/subsystem governance

[Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 4:56 AM, Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 05:31:25PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>>
>> Yup, fully agreed. We don't need another overview over group
>> maintainer ship. Also I don't think an update from arm-soc/tip or drm
>> is interesting either. I think only if there's a new group/subsystem
>> trying this out, with all the nitty-gritty details of "this totally
>> blew up in our faces" and "this worked shockingly well" and "here we
>> need to improve still, we're not happy" is what I'm looking for.
>> Without those details there's nothing really to learn, beyond just
>> rehashing one of the old discussions. I guess I should have put more
>> emphasis on _new_ experiments :-)
>>
>> And if nothing changed, no new groups I think think we should table
>> this right away.
>
> I wonder if this is something that would be better done at the Kernel
> Summit (e.g., in Vancouver), as a discussion session.  It's important
> to remember that Maintainer's Summit has (by design) a small number of
> attendees.  If the goal is to compare notes about various experiments,
> it's likely there will be many kernel developers present in Vancouver.
> After all, getting input from just "Maintainers" but all developers
> participating in development process would be valuable.

Yes, that was at least my idea for all of these topics. I wasn't sure
what label to pick since it's not really a tech topic either.
-Daniel
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