Re: [Ksummit-discuss] "Maintainer summit" invitation discussion

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 05/23/17 10:58, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> One open question mark that James mentioned is just he vendor people -
> particularly if they end up being KS sponsors. I have actually
> traditionally liked the talks from vendors when they talk about their
> issues (as long as they were actual technical talks, not the marketing
> stuff - that's been a disaster), but I know some people found them
> annoying. But I think that is partly organizational and ends up
> involving Angela etc. We've always had sponsor people at the KS, I
> would not mind if they ended up having double roles as sponsor people
> with actual maintainer issues that they'd like to bring up.
> 

I think that the distros are important, but sponsors are largely either
distros or huge (yuge) users, so they are also important (technical, not
marketing).

> Anyway, the top-ten maintainers haven't changed, and this just
> reflects the "Dave Airlie suggests Daniel Vetter as a replacement".
> Davem, your name remains on that list because you didn't suggest
> alternatives..
> 
>   David Miller                  networking and network drivers
>   Greg KH                       stable and misc drivers
				+ usb and staging
>   Daniel Vetter                 drm (Dave Airlie)
>   Ingo Molnar                   x86 and core
>   Mauro Carvalho Chehab         media drivers
>   Arnd Bergmann                 arm and misc arch support
>   Andrew Morton                 misc core
				plus MM; need more MM?

>   Michael Ellerman              powerpc
>   Takashi Iwai                  sound (and SuSE)
>   Doug Ledford                  rdma
> 
> and I think any of those except probably Greg can suggest alternatives.
> 
> On top of those, I had me, stable and linux-next:
> 
>   Linus Torvalds
>   Ben Hutchings                 stable, suggested by Greg
>   Stephen Rothwell              linux-next
> 
> and that's kind of the "core maintainer" list. The rest of the names
> are more tentative, in the sense that they are suggestions for the
> kinds of areas that aren't directly touched by the above. Like:
> 
>  - the TAB people and KS people themselves. You know who you are, and
> you're probably already on this list.
> 
>    I think there's a fair amount of overlap with this group and the
> developers, but it might be worth looking exactly for those kinds of
> "overlap" people.
> 
>  - Infrastructure:
> 
>    Konstantin Ryabitsev         k.org
>    Fengguang Wu                 kernel test robot
>    Steven Rostedt               ktest
>    Shuah Khan                   tools/testing
>    Thorsten Leemhuis            regression tracking
>    Jonathan Corbet              documentaion
>    .. and syzcaller/KASAN people?
> 
>  - Security:
> 
>    Andy Lutomirski              security and core
>    Kees Cook                    security
>    James Morris                 security subsystem
> 
>  - Distro people:
> 
>    Laura Abbott                 Fedora
>    Jiri Kosina (MM? JM?)        Suse
>    Rom Lemarchand               Android
> 
>  - Filesystems?
> 
>    Al Viro                      vfs process
>    Darrick Wong                 xfs
>    Ted Ts'o                     ext4
> 
>  - Block layer:
> 
>    Christoph Hellwig             also rdma and taste
:)

>    James Bottomley
>    Jens Axboe

I would probably add some power management rep.
Otherwise it looks about right to me as an observer.

-- 
~Randy