The annual Maintainer and Kernel Summits will be held in Vancouver, BC on November 12 to 15, in conjunction with the Linux Plumbers Conference. The program committee is looking for topics for both summits; read on for details on how to submit ideas and, perhaps, get an invitation to the Maintainer Summit.

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"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso-AT-mit.edu>

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Subject :

Maintainer / Kernel Summit 2018 planning kick-off

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Thu, 30 Aug 2018 17:35:17 -0400

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<20180830213517.GA19110@thunk.org>

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Feel free to forward this to other Linux kernel mailing lists as

appropriate -- Ted

This year, the Maintainer and Kernel Summit will be in Vancouver,

B.C., November 12th -- 15th. The Maintainer's summit will be held on

Monday, November 12th, in Vancouver, immediately before the Linux

Plumber's Conference (LPC) November 13th -- 15th.

For the past few years, before 2017, we've scheduled mostly management

and development process issues on the first day. We then opened up

the second day of the Kernel Summit to all attendees of the conference

with which the Kernel Summit has been colocated, and called it the

"Open Technical Day". This is something that just made sense in order

to assure that all of the necessary people needed to discuss a

particular technical issue could be in the room.

Starting last year in Prague, we took the next logical step, and split

the Kernel Summit in two. The "Maintainer's Summit" is an

invite-only, half-day event, where the primary focus will be process

issues of Linux Kernel Development. It will be limited to 30 invitees

and a handful of sponsored attendees. This makes it smaller than the

first few kernel summits (which were limited to around 50 attendees).

The "Kernel Summit" is now organized as a track which is run in

parallel with the other tracks at the Linux Plumber's Conference, and

is open to all registered attendees of Plumbers. Much as how we

organized the Kernel Summit "open technical day" in 2016 in Santa Fe,

the Kernel Summit schedule will be synchronized with the other tracks

at the Plumber's Conference, and it will be open to all registered

Plumber's attendees.

Linus has suggested the following ten people as the core of the people

he would like invited to the Maintainer's Summit, which was calculated

from statistics from his git tree.

David Miller

Dave Airlie

Greg KH

Arnd Bergmann

Ingo Molnar

Mauro Carvalho Chehab

Takashi Iwai

Thomas Gleixner

Andrew Morton

Olof Johansson

As we did last year, there will be a mini-program committee that will

be pick enough names to bring the total number of 30 for the

Maintainer's Summit. That program committee will consist of Arnd

Bergmann, Thomas Gleixner, Greg KH, Paul McKenney, and Ted Ts'o.

We will use the rest of names on the list generated by Linus's script

as a starting point of people to be considered. People who suggest

topics that should be discussed on the Maintainer's summit will also

be added to the list. To make topic suggestions for the Maintainer's

Summit, please send e-mail to the ksummit-discuss list with a subject

prefix of [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT].

The other job of the program committee will be to organize the program

for the Kernel Summit. The goal of the Kernel Summit track will be to

provide a forum to discuss specific technical issues that would be

easier to resolve in person than over e-mail. The program committee

will also consider "information sharing" topics if they are clearly of

interest to the wider development community (i.e., advanced training

in topics that would be useful to kernel developers).

To suggest a topic for the Kernel Summit, please tag your e-mail with

[TECH TOPIC]. As before, please use a separate e-mail for each topic,

and send the topic suggestions to:

ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org

People who submit topic suggestions before September 21st and which

are accepted, will be given a free admission to the Linux Plumbers

Conference.

We will reserving roughly half the Kernel Summit slots for last-minute

discussions that will be scheduled during the week of Plumber's, in an

"unconference style". This was extremely popular in Santa Fe and in

Prague, since it allowed ideas that came up in hallway discussions,

and in Plumber's Miniconference, to be given scheduled, dedicated

times for that discussion.

If you were not subscribed on to the kernel-discuss mailing list from

last year (or if you had removed yourself after the kernel summit),

you can subscribe to the discuss list using mailman:

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ksummi...



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