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 23F16EF6 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 19:44:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com (bedivere.hansenpartnership.com [66.63.167.143]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DCAC98B for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 19:44:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bedivere.hansenpartnership.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3B58EE1F4 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 12:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bedivere.hansenpartnership.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qpbYHXD-lxPA for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 12:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [153.66.254.194] (unknown [50.35.68.20]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by bedivere.hansenpartnership.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 550F68EE101 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 12:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1536263073.6012.3.camel@HansenPartnership.com> From: James Bottomley To: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 12:44:33 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER TOPIC] Succession Planning: Is It time to Throw Linus Under a Bus? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Since our fearless leader apparently can't even remember the dates of the only conference he goes to, perhaps now might be a good time to talk about how we'd run an orderly succession process (purely theoretically, of course ...) I think a vote amongst the Maintainer Summit attendees might be the way to elect a new leader, but others probably have different ideas. James