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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER TOPIC] Succession Planning: Is It
 time to Throw Linus Under a Bus?
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On Thu, 2018-09-06 at 21:47 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 9:44 PM, James Bottomley
> <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Why I single leader?
> 
> This group maintainer ship thing ... it  works.

Well, lets talk about that.  I like the single leader model because it
doesn't lead to the cabal cult like the group maintainer model does in
BSD.  However, if we have a plan that can avoid that, I think it would
be a reasonable thing to try out.

I also note that group maintainership seems only to work for you in
DRM; most of the other subsystems seem to have single leader
hierarchical maintainership.

James