Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Thu, 29 May 2008 09:26:31 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 22:58 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> > Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 12:20:12 -0500 > > > In the spirit of having a more process than technical based kernel > > summit, I'd like to put the topic of the kernel Janitors project up for > > discussion. > > Not to distract from your points, but I think it's been a huge > mistake to not allow folks to work hard on technical issues > during the summit.
Actually, it was wrong of me to give that impression. The summit is also all about technical discussions. However, one of the observations made over the last few years was that it's hard to have a technical discussion that actively involves a majority of people in the room, so most of the technical stuff goes on either in the mini-summits (for discussions within maintainer areas) or in the hallway (for discussions across maintainer areas) or in BoF sessions.
However, if there's a technical topic that would occupy the attention of more people than can conveniently be accommodated in the hallway track, by all means raise it ... it can be added to the agenda.
> I feel like I'm at the edge of my seat dieing to talk about > some tech topics, but it's all of this process stuff, it makes > me want to disappear into the local cafe during the main > summit with some folks and talk tech.
That's sort of an extension of the hallway track (especially in Cambridge where there was a convenient pub across the road).
> I think it would even fix the attitude and process issues, > to be able to talk face-to-face about technical issues instead > of always hashing stuff out in email which is the source of > all of the bad behavior.
I agree that having people face to face helps draw heat out of email discussions, certainly. My observation though (and it may not be universally held) has been that the majority of the frictions on the mailing list isn't necessarily coming from the core people who get summit invites.
James
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