Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Draft Maintainer's Summit Agenda and Attendees

[Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>]

On 16 Oct 2018, at 14:16, Mark Brown wrote:

> 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.  The kernel communities have been
>> getting better for a while and several people on the invitee list 
>> have
>> had a lot to do with that.  For me, one of the most gratifying things

I hope that maintainers summit and plumbers are just part of our 
continued conversation about all of these issues.  It's really hard to 
setup the perfect set of people in the room when we're still working on 
all of the questions that need to be asked and finding the best set of 
people to work on them.

[ ... ]

>
> One of the things we could end up doing at the meeting is deferring 
> some
> of the decision for mailing list or other discussion which would give 
> a
> space for that to happen.

Strongly agree here.

-chris