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 ACFFFB3F for ; Tue, 23 May 2017 17:58:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-it0-f67.google.com (mail-it0-f67.google.com [209.85.214.67]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 34E38256 for ; Tue, 23 May 2017 17:58:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-it0-f67.google.com with SMTP id d68so17765373ita.1 for ; Tue, 23 May 2017 10:58:38 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linus971@gmail.com In-Reply-To: References: From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 10:58:36 -0700 Message-ID: To: ksummit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: David Miller Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] "Maintainer summit" invitation discussion List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Ok, I'm re-starting this thread because it's been about a month of quiet and nothing has really changed. James asked me to do another email (but during the merge window, so I was busy) and today Thorsten Leemhuis emailed about regression tracking issues, which just reminded me to get this going again. Removed everybody from the cc list except for David, because I still want him to give an alternate for the networking subsystem (unless, wonder of wonders, you're planning to be in Prague in October, David?). But the basic list that _I_ would like to see hasn't changed. That doesn't mean that this should be "The List", but I think it's just time to pass it over the wall to Ted?James?whoever is working on the non-maintainer parts of the Kernel Summit. One open question mark that James mentioned is just he vendor people - particularly if they end up being KS sponsors. I have actually traditionally liked the talks from vendors when they talk about their issues (as long as they were actual technical talks, not the marketing stuff - that's been a disaster), but I know some people found them annoying. But I think that is partly organizational and ends up involving Angela etc. We've always had sponsor people at the KS, I would not mind if they ended up having double roles as sponsor people with actual maintainer issues that they'd like to bring up. Anyway, the top-ten maintainers haven't changed, and this just reflects the "Dave Airlie suggests Daniel Vetter as a replacement". Davem, your name remains on that list because you didn't suggest alternatives.. David Miller networking and network drivers Greg KH stable and misc drivers Daniel Vetter drm (Dave Airlie) Ingo Molnar x86 and core Mauro Carvalho Chehab media drivers Arnd Bergmann arm and misc arch support Andrew Morton misc core Michael Ellerman powerpc Takashi Iwai sound (and SuSE) Doug Ledford rdma and I think any of those except probably Greg can suggest alternatives. On top of those, I had me, stable and linux-next: Linus Torvalds Ben Hutchings stable, suggested by Greg Stephen Rothwell linux-next and that's kind of the "core maintainer" list. The rest of the names are more tentative, in the sense that they are suggestions for the kinds of areas that aren't directly touched by the above. Like: - the TAB people and KS people themselves. You know who you are, and you're probably already on this list. I think there's a fair amount of overlap with this group and the developers, but it might be worth looking exactly for those kinds of "overlap" people. - Infrastructure: Konstantin Ryabitsev k.org Fengguang Wu kernel test robot Steven Rostedt ktest Shuah Khan tools/testing Thorsten Leemhuis regression tracking Jonathan Corbet documentaion .. and syzcaller/KASAN people? - Security: Andy Lutomirski security and core Kees Cook security James Morris security subsystem - Distro people: Laura Abbott Fedora Jiri Kosina (MM? JM?) Suse Rom Lemarchand Android - Filesystems? Al Viro vfs process Darrick Wong xfs Ted Ts'o ext4 - Block layer: Christoph Hellwig also rdma and taste James Bottomley Jens Axboe and I suspect picking people from these "misc" groups is at least partly about the *other* days and who is in Prague anyway.. And again, there's the whole vendor/sponsor thing, ie facebook, google, hw vendors etc. I tried to gather up names as they flew past when I thought they fit the maintainership agenda, but I was also trying to keep this particular list fairly minimal. I suspect we'll see Linus