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 7DDDB9F2 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2015 03:58:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.suse.de (cantor2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0A9C419A for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2015 03:58:46 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1436326811.12255.90.camel@stgolabs.net> From: Davidlohr Bueso To: NeilBrown Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 20:40:11 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20150708114913.4ef9e517@noble> References: <201507080121.41463.PeterHuewe@gmx.de> <1481488.5WJFbB0Dlm@vostro.rjw.lan> <20150708114913.4ef9e517@noble> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Josh Boyer , Jason Cooper , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 11:49 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > In academia, there is a "sabbatical" system (or there was - at some > Unis) where an academic could take 6 months or a year off to go and do > something else: visit another institution - do some new research or > new sort of teaching. Would you like a 6-month secondment to the Linux > Foundation to be spent reviewing patches? I think I would... There's also consulting. Given enough cash, you could probably hire subsystem specialists to pay close attention at patches that are trying to be pushed by some individual or company. Objectively, of course.