1 TOPICS SOUGHT FOR THE KERNEL AND MAINTAINER SUMMITS
3 [Kernel] Sep 3, 2018 19:07 UTC (Mon) (corbet)
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9 The annual Maintainer and Kernel Summits will be held in
10 Vancouver, BC on November 12 to 15, in conjunction with the
11 Linux Plumbers Conference. The program committee is looking
12 for topics for both summits; read on for details on how to
13 submit ideas and, perhaps, get an invitation to the Maintainer
18 "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso-AT-mit.edu>
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28 Maintainer / Kernel Summit 2018 planning kick-off
32 Thu, 30 Aug 2018 17:35:17 -0400
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47 This year, the Maintainer and Kernel Summit will be in
50 B.C., November 12th -- 15th. The Maintainer's summit will be
53 Monday, November 12th, in Vancouver, immediately before the
56 Plumber's Conference (LPC) November 13th -- 15th.
58 For the past few years, before 2017, we've scheduled mostly
61 and development process issues on the first day. We then
64 the second day of the Kernel Summit to all attendees of the
67 with which the Kernel Summit has been colocated, and called it
70 "Open Technical Day". This is something that just made sense
73 to assure that all of the necessary people needed to discuss a
75 particular technical issue could be in the room.
77 Starting last year in Prague, we took the next logical step,
80 the Kernel Summit in two. The "Maintainer's Summit" is an
82 invite-only, half-day event, where the primary focus will be
85 issues of Linux Kernel Development. It will be limited to 30
88 and a handful of sponsored attendees. This makes it smaller
91 first few kernel summits (which were limited to around 50
94 The "Kernel Summit" is now organized as a track which is run in
96 parallel with the other tracks at the Linux Plumber's
99 is open to all registered attendees of Plumbers. Much as how we
101 organized the Kernel Summit "open technical day" in 2016 in
104 the Kernel Summit schedule will be synchronized with the other
107 at the Plumber's Conference, and it will be open to all
112 Linus has suggested the following ten people as the core of
115 he would like invited to the Maintainer's Summit, which was
118 from statistics from his git tree.
130 Mauro Carvalho Chehab
140 As we did last year, there will be a mini-program committee
143 be pick enough names to bring the total number of 30 for the
145 Maintainer's Summit. That program committee will consist of
148 Bergmann, Thomas Gleixner, Greg KH, Paul McKenney, and Ted
151 We will use the rest of names on the list generated by Linus's
154 as a starting point of people to be considered. People who
157 topics that should be discussed on the Maintainer's summit
160 be added to the list. To make topic suggestions for the
163 Summit, please send e-mail to the ksummit-discuss list with a
166 prefix of [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT].
168 The other job of the program committee will be to organize the
171 for the Kernel Summit. The goal of the Kernel Summit track
174 provide a forum to discuss specific technical issues that
177 easier to resolve in person than over e-mail. The program
180 will also consider "information sharing" topics if they are
183 interest to the wider development community (i.e., advanced
186 in topics that would be useful to kernel developers).
188 To suggest a topic for the Kernel Summit, please tag your
191 [TECH TOPIC]. As before, please use a separate e-mail for each
194 and send the topic suggestions to:
196 ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
198 People who submit topic suggestions before September 21st and
201 are accepted, will be given a free admission to the Linux
206 We will reserving roughly half the Kernel Summit slots for
209 discussions that will be scheduled during the week of
212 "unconference style". This was extremely popular in Santa Fe
215 Prague, since it allowed ideas that came up in hallway
218 and in Plumber's Miniconference, to be given scheduled,
221 times for that discussion.
223 If you were not subscribed on to the kernel-discuss mailing
226 last year (or if you had removed yourself after the kernel
229 you can subscribe to the discuss list using mailman:
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