Re: [Ksummit-discuss] "Maintainer summit" invitation discussion

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> I'm probably late, but I would like to add myself to that list. As RT (and
> upstream) maintainer I'm pretty involved in large scale overhauls and
> restructuring which is often enough a process issue.

So I certainly have no objection, but I think we should strive to have
something approaching a "process" for the picking.

I assume there's an actual official KS organizing committee, although
I have no idea who would be on it, except for the presumed usual
suspects (ie Ted and James).

And I would suggest that in order to make it easier on them, _and_ to
actually also have an agenda in place when we show up in October,
people who want to nominate themselves (or somebody else, for that
matter), actually write a little blurb about what they want to bring
up for the agenda.

That would help both the selection committee and the agenda.

In the "what to bring up" blurb, I'd really suggest not just bringing
up a problem, but mentioning a possible real constructive (perhaps
partial) solution too, as part of why that particular person should be
at the KS and why it's worth discussing. We don't want it to be a
"this is a problem I have" kvetching session.

We know part of the agenda already, it was discussed earlier in the
thread. We've had the eternal issue about non-responsive maintainers
and how to try to improve that (whether it's group maintainership or
"fall-through-the-cracks" people or whatever). And I think we've
discussed regression tracking pretty much every year too.

But wouldn't it be good if the KS committee could basically get both a
suggested agenda item and a person selection hint at the same time?

Would there be some convenient way to submit those? We're all email
people, so perhaps just an email with something to easily search for
in the subject line. Just to the list, or who are the actual KS point
men?

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:29 PM, James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
>
> I'm happy to try to wrangle interesting and highly technical vendor
> talks.  I believe the current time plan for the maintainer summit is
> half a day (is this correct?), so I propose we do vendor talks in the
> other half of the day.  That way people who aren't interested can take
> the afternoon or morning (depending where people want it in the
> timetable) off to see Prague.

Sounds reasonable by me. Assuming we can get _good_ vendor talks.

              Linus