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Subject: Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Maintainers Support Group
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To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Bart Van Assche
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On 9/19/23 11:21, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:03:48 -0700
> Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/19/23 09:10, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Maybe maintainers who are stressed out will prefer a video call or IRC
>> session instead of sending an email that gets archived who-knows-where?
> 
> As I replied to Shuah. There would be no mailing list. And the names of the
> supporting volunteers will be listed. Sure, we can include irc contacts of
> how to reach those maintainers if they choose.
> 

Steve,

As I replied to Ted and Randy, I think the proposal James pointed to is
where we could start and evolve that discussion to the actions such as
support group, instead of starting with a solution without looking at
the bigger picture.

https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/ab9cfd857e32635f626a906410ad95877a22f0db.camel@HansenPartnership.com/

thanks,
-- Shuah