Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER TOPIC] Succession Planning: Is It time to Throw Linus Under a Bus?

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 9:51 PM James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-09-06 at 21:47 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 9:44 PM, James Bottomley
> > <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> > > Since our fearless leader apparently can't even remember the dates
> > > of
> > > the only conference he goes to, perhaps now might be a good time to
> > > talk about how we'd run an orderly succession process (purely
> > > theoretically, of course ...)
> > >
> > > I think a vote amongst the Maintainer Summit attendees might be the
> > > way
> > > to elect a new leader, but others probably have different ideas.
> >
> > Why I single leader?
> >
> > This group maintainer ship thing ... it  works.
>
> Well, lets talk about that.  I like the single leader model because it
> doesn't lead to the cabal cult like the group maintainer model does in
> BSD.  However, if we have a plan that can avoid that, I think it would
> be a reasonable thing to try out.
>
> I also note that group maintainership seems only to work for you in
> DRM; most of the other subsystems seem to have single leader
> hierarchical maintainership.

Arm-soc has a triumvirate doing round-robin releases/pull-requests.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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