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 F0045115D for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 20:06:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ua1-f68.google.com (mail-ua1-f68.google.com [209.85.222.68]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 61B756D6 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 20:06:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ua1-f68.google.com with SMTP id o11-v6so10113887uak.5 for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 13:06:41 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1536263073.6012.3.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1536263475.6012.5.camel@HansenPartnership.com> In-Reply-To: <1536263475.6012.5.camel@HansenPartnership.com> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 22:06:26 +0200 Message-ID: To: James Bottomley Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER TOPIC] Succession Planning: Is It time to Throw Linus Under a Bus? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 9:51 PM James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2018-09-06 at 21:47 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 9:44 PM, James Bottomley > > 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 -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds