Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Reminder for kernel summit nominations

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Fri, 9 May 2014 11:40:35 -0400
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> -linux-kernel
> 

> I deliberately didn't include lists of names of "people that would be
> useful if we're going to have discussion X", since we that presupposes
> that we are definitely going to have a particular discussion.  If you
> see someone who you think should attend regardless of whether we
> decide to include topic X, please send a separate nomination.

I don't know why not. Even if we do not decide to talk about discussion
X, it does not hurt to add people that are useful to the discussion in
the nomination list. Just because they were mentioned, means they
probably have some importance to the kernel and should be considered.

That doesn't mean that we are going to invite them, any more than we
would invite others on the list.


> 
> (Also note that we can't necessarily include everyone listed on a
> "useful for topic X" list even if we are going to include that topic
> on the agenda.  We'll try to use some good judgement, but some kind of
> priority listing or annotation of why someone was included, i.e., "we
> need at least one of Foo and Bar from the glibc community, and either
> Quux or Baz from the systemd community, etc.)

For now just acquiring a list for us to start the process is important.

The first round usually just includes major developers that are not
being invited for any specific topic. For the choosing of those for
topics (around when we figure out what topics we want to include),
having a list of "most influential to the topic" would definitely be
helpful.

-- Steve