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 D272229EF for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 18:00:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net (relay3-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.195]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 33CD2FD for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 18:00:25 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:00:10 -0700 From: Josh Triplett To: James Bottomley Message-ID: <20181016180010.GC4367@localhost> References: <20181016021254.GA21220@thunk.org> <1539702797.2805.19.camel@HansenPartnership.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1539702797.2805.19.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: ksummit Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Draft Maintainer's Summit Agenda and Attendees List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 08:13:17AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 10:11 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > And I don't see anyone else from an external community with real > > experience (or someone who does consulting in this area) invited to > > fill that gap either. > > I don't buy the narrative that you must be a CoC consultant or > implementor to make a difference. We typically don't make major changes in a specialized domain without consulting domain experts, to avoid building a solution that won't work or ignores well-known issues in that domain. We wouldn't go off and build a virtualization subsystem without consulting virtualization experts; we wouldn't build a storage subsystem without consulting storage experts; we wouldn't hack on a license without consulting legal experts; the same applies here.