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 217B89B9 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:32:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oi0-f66.google.com (mail-oi0-f66.google.com [209.85.218.66]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B1A4A4DA for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:32:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oi0-f66.google.com with SMTP id c202so23038868oih.9 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 09:32:50 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1509380953.3660.28.camel@wdc.com> References: <20171029100816.pmq5dpmck4cclmdw@thunk.org> <1509380953.3660.28.camel@wdc.com> From: Dan Williams Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 09:32:49 -0700 Message-ID: To: Bart Van Assche Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Maintainer's Summit 2017 Feedback Thread List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Sun, 2017-10-29 at 06:08 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> Please reply to this thread if you have any comments about how we can >> organize the Maintainer's Summit for next year. Given that Linus >> seemed fairly happy with how things went, it's likely we will stick >> with the same format for next year, but if there are any details about >> how we could do things better, I'd greatly appreciate them. > > Hello Ted, > > Something that surprised me is although I'm reading Linus' replies to pull > requests that appear on the LKML mailing list that during the maintainer > summit I learned more about what Linus expects from maintainers than by > reading Linus' e-mails. I think this shows that reading Linus' e-mails is > not enough to learn what Linus expects from maintainers. This made me wonder > how maintainers are informed about what is expected from them, especially > new maintainers? Do we perhaps need a document in the kernel tree that > explains what is expected from maintainers? Yes, we do. Especially with the number of people that are sending pull requests directly to Linus. I am taking a look at putting a first draft of such a document together in the next week or so.