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 C3082C8A for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:43:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6BE178D for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:43:34 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 09:43:32 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Dave Airlie Message-ID: <20180918094332.2c0d066a@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ksummit Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER TOPIC FOR KS] CoC and Linus position (perhaps undocumented/closed/limited/invite session) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 15:55:23 +1000 Dave Airlie wrote: > I think there might be place for a report from the people who did sign > off the CoC about the thoughts/process involved in updating it (and/or > urgency) to the rest of the Maintainer group. > > Now I understand that having a public talk about such a thing will > likely descend into farce, there may be scope for something of a > Chatham House Rule style meeting, or just a non-recorded, non-public > session like we've done for sensitive subjects are previous kernel > summits. I believe this topic merits a discussion at Maintainer's Summit. It can probably be much more productive face to face with several maintainers in one room than what would result in a mailing list (both public and private) discussion. I'm willing to lead this if nobody else wants to do it. (I don't know why I do this to myself) > > It might just be a readout from a similar meeting at Edinburgh summit > (maybe someone else can propose that), or maybe some sort of Q&A > session. Maybe Linus could record a piece to camera for the > maintainers that can't make Edinburgh, but would still like to > understand where everything currently sits. Said piece would of course > be burned afterwards. I would like to get an honest opinion from everyone involved, and remove any of the ambiguities that people still have. > > After the past 2-3 days I get the feeling there are maintainers unsure > about how this affects them and I think assuaging those fears might be > a good thing. Agreed. > > I'm also equally happy nailing the lid back on the can of worms and > never discussing it again. No no, the can is now open and you have released the worms ;-) -- Steve