From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 09:42:29 -0500 From: Steven Rostedt To: Kees Cook via Tech-board-discuss Message-ID: <20181108094229.174aa2ac@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, Kees Cook Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] TAB nomination List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 21:14:12 -0800 Kees Cook via Tech-board-discuss wrote: > Hi, > > I'm volunteering to stand for election to the TAB. > > My primary concern for the kernel is security. I've been a member of > the security@kernel.org response team for 5 years, and I've been > herding cats with the Kernel Self-Protection Project for 3 years. I > have frequently worked kernel-wide across many subsystems, or many > architectures, when helping landing various security defenses. This > cross-maintainer work is a unique social and technical challenge, and > the topic of "security" is a similarly wide and unique challenge. I'd > like to represent both of these concerns on the TAB. > > In addition to being an active kernel developer and maintainer, I also > bring several "downstream" perspectives on how the kernel is consumed. > I understand the concerns of a general purpose distro, having worked > on Ubuntu for 5 years. More recently, I know the demands of special > purpose device vendors, having worked on Chrome OS, Brillo, and > Android over the last 7 years. > > I was a reluctant supporter of the Code of Conflict (it did not go far > enough), but I was even more unhappy with the sudden Code of Conduct > (due to lack of decision transparency and potential for very > counter-intuitive interpretations). I am, however, a fan of the base > intent and the recent clarifications: I've not enjoyed the times I've > been yelled at by Linus, and I have not liked seeing other toxic > interactions in the community. I'd like to help make sure the TAB > continues to support a positive social dynamic for contributors to the > kernel, stays up front about these kinds of changes going forward, and > that it is not unduly influenced by external forces. > > Thanks for your consideration, > Thanks Kees, I added you to the document. -- Steve