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| 94 | <h1>Topics sought for the Kernel and Maintainer Summits</h1> |
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| 96 | <div class="ArticleText"> |
| 97 | The annual Maintainer and Kernel Summits will be held in Vancouver, BC on |
| 98 | November 12 to 15, in conjunction with the Linux Plumbers Conference. |
| 99 | The program committee is looking for topics for both summits; read on for |
| 100 | details on how to submit ideas and, perhaps, get an invitation to the |
| 101 | Maintainer Summit. |
| 102 | <p><hr><p> |
| 103 | <table> |
| 104 | <tr><td valign="top"><b>From</b>:</td> |
| 105 | <td> </td><td valign="top">"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso-AT-mit.edu></td></tr> |
| 106 | <tr><td valign="top"><b>To</b>:</td> |
| 107 | <td> </td><td valign="top">linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-mm-AT-kvack.org, netdev-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-block-AT-vger.kernel.org</td></tr> |
| 108 | <tr><td valign="top"><b>Subject</b>:</td> |
| 109 | <td> </td><td valign="top">Maintainer / Kernel Summit 2018 planning kick-off</td></tr> |
| 110 | <tr><td valign="top"><b>Date</b>:</td> |
| 111 | <td> </td><td valign="top">Thu, 30 Aug 2018 17:35:17 -0400</td></tr> |
| 112 | <tr><td valign="top"><b>Message-ID</b>:</td> |
| 113 | <td> </td><td valign="top"><20180830213517.GA19110@thunk.org></td></tr> |
| 114 | <tr><td valign="top"><b>Archive-link</b>:</td> |
| 115 | <td> </td><td valign="top"><a href="https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/20180830213517.GA19110@thunk.org">Article</a></td></tr> |
| 116 | </table><p> |
| 117 | <pre> |
| 118 | [ Feel free to forward this to other Linux kernel mailing lists as |
| 119 | appropriate -- Ted ] |
| 120 | |
| 121 | This year, the Maintainer and Kernel Summit will be in Vancouver, |
| 122 | B.C., November 12th -- 15th. The Maintainer's summit will be held on |
| 123 | Monday, November 12th, in Vancouver, immediately before the Linux |
| 124 | Plumber's Conference (LPC) November 13th -- 15th. |
| 125 | |
| 126 | For the past few years, before 2017, we've scheduled mostly management |
| 127 | and development process issues on the first day. We then opened up |
| 128 | the second day of the Kernel Summit to all attendees of the conference |
| 129 | with which the Kernel Summit has been colocated, and called it the |
| 130 | "Open Technical Day". This is something that just made sense in order |
| 131 | to assure that all of the necessary people needed to discuss a |
| 132 | particular technical issue could be in the room. |
| 133 | |
| 134 | Starting last year in Prague, we took the next logical step, and split |
| 135 | the Kernel Summit in two. The "Maintainer's Summit" is an |
| 136 | invite-only, half-day event, where the primary focus will be process |
| 137 | issues of Linux Kernel Development. It will be limited to 30 invitees |
| 138 | and a handful of sponsored attendees. This makes it smaller than the |
| 139 | first few kernel summits (which were limited to around 50 attendees). |
| 140 | |
| 141 | The "Kernel Summit" is now organized as a track which is run in |
| 142 | parallel with the other tracks at the Linux Plumber's Conference, and |
| 143 | is open to all registered attendees of Plumbers. Much as how we |
| 144 | organized the Kernel Summit "open technical day" in 2016 in Santa Fe, |
| 145 | the Kernel Summit schedule will be synchronized with the other tracks |
| 146 | at the Plumber's Conference, and it will be open to all registered |
| 147 | Plumber's attendees. |
| 148 | |
| 149 | Linus has suggested the following ten people as the core of the people |
| 150 | he would like invited to the Maintainer's Summit, which was calculated |
| 151 | from statistics from his git tree. |
| 152 | |
| 153 | David Miller |
| 154 | Dave Airlie |
| 155 | Greg KH |
| 156 | Arnd Bergmann |
| 157 | Ingo Molnar |
| 158 | Mauro Carvalho Chehab |
| 159 | Takashi Iwai |
| 160 | Thomas Gleixner |
| 161 | Andrew Morton |
| 162 | Olof Johansson |
| 163 | |
| 164 | As we did last year, there will be a mini-program committee that will |
| 165 | be pick enough names to bring the total number of 30 for the |
| 166 | Maintainer's Summit. That program committee will consist of Arnd |
| 167 | Bergmann, Thomas Gleixner, Greg KH, Paul McKenney, and Ted Ts'o. |
| 168 | |
| 169 | We will use the rest of names on the list generated by Linus's script |
| 170 | as a starting point of people to be considered. People who suggest |
| 171 | topics that should be discussed on the Maintainer's summit will also |
| 172 | be added to the list. To make topic suggestions for the Maintainer's |
| 173 | Summit, please send e-mail to the ksummit-discuss list with a subject |
| 174 | prefix of [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT]. |
| 175 | |
| 176 | |
| 177 | The other job of the program committee will be to organize the program |
| 178 | for the Kernel Summit. The goal of the Kernel Summit track will be to |
| 179 | provide a forum to discuss specific technical issues that would be |
| 180 | easier to resolve in person than over e-mail. The program committee |
| 181 | will also consider "information sharing" topics if they are clearly of |
| 182 | interest to the wider development community (i.e., advanced training |
| 183 | in topics that would be useful to kernel developers). |
| 184 | |
| 185 | To suggest a topic for the Kernel Summit, please tag your e-mail with |
| 186 | [TECH TOPIC]. As before, please use a separate e-mail for each topic, |
| 187 | and send the topic suggestions to: |
| 188 | |
| 189 | ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org |
| 190 | |
| 191 | People who submit topic suggestions before September 21st and which |
| 192 | are accepted, will be given a free admission to the Linux Plumbers |
| 193 | Conference. |
| 194 | |
| 195 | We will reserving roughly half the Kernel Summit slots for last-minute |
| 196 | discussions that will be scheduled during the week of Plumber's, in an |
| 197 | "unconference style". This was extremely popular in Santa Fe and in |
| 198 | Prague, since it allowed ideas that came up in hallway discussions, |
| 199 | and in Plumber's Miniconference, to be given scheduled, dedicated |
| 200 | times for that discussion. |
| 201 | |
| 202 | |
| 203 | If you were not subscribed on to the kernel-discuss mailing list from |
| 204 | last year (or if you had removed yourself after the kernel summit), |
| 205 | you can subscribe to the discuss list using mailman: |
| 206 | |
| 207 | <a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ksummit-discuss">https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ksummi...</a></pre> |
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