From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756923AbYE3BZ7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 21:25:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751693AbYE3BZv (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 21:25:51 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:60900 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751183AbYE3BZv (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 21:25:51 -0400 Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: David Miller , ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080529205917.GA22636@parisc-linux.org> References: <20080528.225826.40264516.davem@davemloft.net> <1212041839.8888.38.camel@pasglop> <20080529124548.GC8065@mit.edu> <20080529.135431.235149338.davem@davemloft.net> <20080529205917.GA22636@parisc-linux.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 11:25:41 +1000 Message-Id: <1212110741.15633.15.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:59 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:54:31PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > Ted, we are adults and professional kernel hackers. > > > > If you put us in a room together, we know what the heck to talk > > about and what is relevant. So saying we need to plan the topics and > > invite the right people, that's pure hogwash, just invite the same > > kind of people we've always been inviting and it will be fine. > > Ooh, do I hear a supporter for my idea from a few years ago of having > half the time in sessions and half the time in the hallway track? > > (I always felt the presentations were more or less useless. Maybe that > was different last year.) Turn presentations into BOFs ? :-) Ben