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   1          TOPICS SOUGHT FOR THE KERNEL AND MAINTAINER SUMMITS
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   3   [Kernel] Sep 3, 2018 19:07 UTC (Mon) (corbet)
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   5   o News link: https://lwn.net/Articles/764055
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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
  14     Summit.
  15
  16     From :
  17
  18     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso-AT-mit.edu>
  19
  20     To :
  21
  22     linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel-AT-vger.kernel.-
  23     org,      linux-mm-AT-kvack.org,     netdev-AT-vger.kernel.org,
  24     linux-block-AT-vger.kernel.org
  25
  26     Subject :
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  28     Maintainer / Kernel Summit 2018 planning kick-off
  29
  30     Date :
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  32     Thu, 30 Aug 2018 17:35:17 -0400
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  34     Message-ID :
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  36     <20180830213517.GA19110@thunk.org>
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  38     Archive-link :
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  40     [1]Article
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  42     [  Feel  free  to  forward  this  to other Linux kernel mailing
  43     lists as
  44
  45     appropriate -- Ted ]
  46
  47     This  year,  the  Maintainer  and  Kernel  Summit  will  be  in
  48     Vancouver,
  49
  50     B.C.,  November  12th  -- 15th. The Maintainer's summit will be
  51     held on
  52
  53     Monday,  November  12th,  in  Vancouver, immediately before the
  54     Linux
  55
  56     Plumber's Conference (LPC) November 13th -- 15th.
  57
  58     For  the  past  few  years, before 2017, we've scheduled mostly
  59     management
  60
  61     and  development  process  issues  on  the  first  day. We then
  62     opened up
  63
  64     the  second  day  of  the Kernel Summit to all attendees of the
  65     conference
  66
  67     with  which the Kernel Summit has been colocated, and called it
  68     the
  69
  70     "Open  Technical  Day".  This is something that just made sense
  71     in order
  72
  73     to assure that all of the necessary people needed to discuss a
  74
  75     particular technical issue could be in the room.
  76
  77     Starting  last  year  in Prague, we took the next logical step,
  78     and split
  79
  80     the Kernel Summit in two. The "Maintainer's Summit" is an
  81
  82     invite-only,  half-day  event,  where the primary focus will be
  83     process
  84
  85     issues  of  Linux  Kernel Development. It will be limited to 30
  86     invitees
  87
  88     and  a  handful  of  sponsored attendees. This makes it smaller
  89     than the
  90
  91     first  few  kernel  summits  (which  were  limited to around 50
  92     attendees).
  93
  94     The "Kernel Summit" is now organized as a track which is run in
  95
  96     parallel   with   the  other  tracks  at  the  Linux  Plumber's
  97     Conference, and
  98
  99     is open to all registered attendees of Plumbers. Much as how we
 100
 101     organized  the  Kernel  Summit  "open technical day" in 2016 in
 102     Santa Fe,
 103
 104     the  Kernel Summit schedule will be synchronized with the other
 105     tracks
 106
 107     at  the  Plumber's  Conference,  and  it  will  be  open to all
 108     registered
 109
 110     Plumber's attendees.
 111
 112     Linus  has  suggested  the  following ten people as the core of
 113     the people
 114
 115     he  would  like  invited  to the Maintainer's Summit, which was
 116     calculated
 117
 118     from statistics from his git tree.
 119
 120     David Miller
 121
 122     Dave Airlie
 123
 124     Greg KH
 125
 126     Arnd Bergmann
 127
 128     Ingo Molnar
 129
 130     Mauro Carvalho Chehab
 131
 132     Takashi Iwai
 133
 134     Thomas Gleixner
 135
 136     Andrew Morton
 137
 138     Olof Johansson
 139
 140     As  we  did  last  year, there will be a mini-program committee
 141     that will
 142
 143     be pick enough names to bring the total number of 30 for the
 144
 145     Maintainer's  Summit.  That  program  committee will consist of
 146     Arnd
 147
 148     Bergmann,  Thomas  Gleixner,  Greg  KH,  Paul McKenney, and Ted
 149     Ts'o.
 150
 151     We  will use the rest of names on the list generated by Linus's
 152     script
 153
 154     as  a  starting  point  of  people to be considered. People who
 155     suggest
 156
 157     topics  that  should  be  discussed  on the Maintainer's summit
 158     will also
 159
 160     be  added  to  the  list.  To  make  topic  suggestions for the
 161     Maintainer's
 162
 163     Summit,  please  send e-mail to the ksummit-discuss list with a
 164     subject
 165
 166     prefix of [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT].
 167
 168     The  other job of the program committee will be to organize the
 169     program
 170
 171     for  the  Kernel  Summit.  The  goal of the Kernel Summit track
 172     will be to
 173
 174     provide  a  forum  to  discuss  specific  technical issues that
 175     would be
 176
 177     easier  to  resolve  in  person  than  over e-mail. The program
 178     committee
 179
 180     will  also  consider  "information  sharing" topics if they are
 181     clearly of
 182
 183     interest  to  the  wider  development community (i.e., advanced
 184     training
 185
 186     in topics that would be useful to kernel developers).
 187
 188     To  suggest  a  topic  for  the  Kernel Summit, please tag your
 189     e-mail with
 190
 191     [TECH  TOPIC]. As before, please use a separate e-mail for each
 192     topic,
 193
 194     and send the topic suggestions to:
 195
 196     ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
 197
 198     People  who  submit topic suggestions before September 21st and
 199     which
 200
 201     are  accepted,  will  be  given  a  free admission to the Linux
 202     Plumbers
 203
 204     Conference.
 205
 206     We  will  reserving  roughly  half  the Kernel Summit slots for
 207     last-minute
 208
 209     discussions   that   will  be  scheduled  during  the  week  of
 210     Plumber's, in an
 211
 212     "unconference  style".  This  was extremely popular in Santa Fe
 213     and in
 214
 215     Prague,  since  it  allowed  ideas  that  came  up  in  hallway
 216     discussions,
 217
 218     and   in  Plumber's  Miniconference,  to  be  given  scheduled,
 219     dedicated
 220
 221     times for that discussion.
 222
 223     If  you  were  not  subscribed on to the kernel-discuss mailing
 224     list from
 225
 226     last  year  (or  if  you  had removed yourself after the kernel
 227     summit),
 228
 229     you can subscribe to the discuss list using mailman:
 230
 231     https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ksummi...
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