Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Adding more formality around feature inclusion and ejection

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 09:09:04AM +0100, James Bottomley wrote:
> > So what I saw is that as developers exercised this and effectively
> > disengaged unless directly attacked, it pretty much became all on Linus
> > because no-one was left in the chain. This is precisely where I think
> > we could do with an alternative mechanism.
>
> You are implying here that we all just "ran away" and left Linus to hold
> the bag here, which is NOT the case at all.  This specific issue has
> been discussed to death in a lot of different threads, public and
> private with lots of people involved and none of that would have been
> any different had we had some sort of "process document" ahead of time.
>
> So I don't think that attempting to codify the very rare occurrences like
> this is going to really help out much, given that they are all unique to
> their time/place/subsystem based on our past history like this.

I agree.