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 5DCC4E33 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2018 22:14:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qk1-f194.google.com (mail-qk1-f194.google.com [209.85.222.194]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E9D05786 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2018 22:14:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qk1-f194.google.com with SMTP id z125-v6so10632806qkb.12 for ; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:14:07 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20180906185043.GA14607@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <20180906185043.GA14607@thunk.org> From: Dave Airlie Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 08:13:54 +1000 Message-ID: To: "Theodore Ts'o" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: ksummit Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] CHANGE OF PLAN: Maintainer Summit will be in Edinburgh List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 at 04:50, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > Last Friday (just before Labor Day) I learned that Linus had gotten > confused about when and where the Maintainer's Summit was going to be > held this year. And most unfortunately, he has already scheduled a > family vacation overlapping with the week of the Maintainer's Summit. > > Over the weekend, I've been conferring with folks from the Linux > Foundation, Linus, and the Maintainer's / Kernel Summit program > committee. We explored a lot of options, but ultimately there were > only two choices that were workable: > > 1) Have the Maintainer's Summit in Vancouver, without Linus. > > 2) Move the Maintainer's Summit to Edinburgh, with Linus. > > Curiously enough, Linus suggested option #1. And while holding the > Maintainer's Summit without Linus might be an interesting experiment, > ultimately, the Program Committee had a strong consensus that moving > it Summit to Edinburgh was the better option. > > This means that the Maintainer's Summit will take place in Edinburgh, > on Monday afternoon, October 22nd. As a reminder, the Maintainer's > Summit is an invite-only workshop, with ~30 people attending. The > focus of the Maintainer's Summit is process and development issues, > *not* technical issues. > > The Kernel Summit track will still be held in Vancouver alongside > Plumber's. Technical discussions will take place there; we simply > won't have the time, or necessarily, the right people, to have > technical discussions at the Maintainer's Summit. > > This means that people who get an invite to the Maintainer's Summit > may have an extra trip this year (some may have been planning to > attend OSS EU anyway). For those for which this will be an extra > trip, I apologize in advance. Maintainer's Summit invitees will still > receive a free (non-transferrable) registration to the Linux Plumber's > Conference. > > This also means that the process by which we issue invites to the > Maintainer's Summit is going to have been significantly accelerated. > So if you have any ideas for the Maintainer's Summit Topics, please > chime in soon! Way to go team :-) I was unsure on making to Vancouver, getting to Edinburgh in a shorter timeframe is even more unlikely at this stage, surprisingly I prefer being married to hanging out with Linus. 3) Have it next year. It's all ticking along nicely, and we probably won't make major changes anyways. I assume this means the Monday at LPC is empty now, unless we can propose a use for it, or a mini-summit no Linus. Dave.