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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: ksummit <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER TOPIC] Succession Planning: Is It time to Throw Linus Under a Bus?
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 13:51:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1536267088.6012.7.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFysTUkDByFx-dy=jz9OGURgUO=pTt_hUzOOBm7noNr9zg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2018-09-06 at 12:57 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:44 PM James Bottomley
> <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I think a vote amongst the Maintainer Summit attendees might be the
> > way to elect a new leader, but others probably have different
> > ideas.
> 
> I *literally* suggested that this is why it would be best to do it
> without me in Vancouver.
> 
> Because what better opportunity for a palace coup than when the old
> dictator is off gallivanting? It's very traditional.

It's happened occasionally, but it's not very traditional.  Usually
when people do a palace coup replacement, the tumbrels are waiting
outside to cart the old dictator off to their sticky end.  You can't
afford to leave them around, you see: they can pop up later and spoil
the new republic inordinately.

So, I think if we're running a sanctioned palace coup, we really need
you around to anoint the successor(s).

James

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-06 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-06 19:44 James Bottomley
2018-09-06 19:47 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-06 19:51   ` James Bottomley
2018-09-06 20:06     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-06 20:35       ` Olof Johansson
2018-09-06 20:45         ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-06 20:52           ` Olof Johansson
2018-09-08 10:47     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-08 10:50       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-08 12:21       ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-09 13:56       ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-09 20:05       ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-06 19:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-06 20:51   ` James Bottomley [this message]
2018-09-06 20:59     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-06 21:13       ` James Bottomley
2018-09-06 21:20         ` Jens Axboe
2018-09-06 21:28           ` John W. Linville
2018-09-06 21:34             ` Jens Axboe
2018-09-06 21:41         ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-06 22:12           ` David Woodhouse
2018-09-06 22:19             ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-06 22:29           ` James Bottomley
2018-09-06 21:37       ` Olof Johansson

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