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 C33887AA for ; Tue, 23 May 2017 18:17:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [65.50.211.133]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A37B237 for ; Tue, 23 May 2017 18:17:53 +0000 (UTC) To: Linus Torvalds , ksummit References: From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 11:17:50 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] "Maintainer summit" invitation discussion List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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