From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: ksummit <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER TOPIC] Succession Planning: Is It time to Throw Linus Under a Bus?
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 13:51:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1536267088.6012.7.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFysTUkDByFx-dy=jz9OGURgUO=pTt_hUzOOBm7noNr9zg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2018-09-06 at 12:57 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:44 PM James Bottomley
> <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think a vote amongst the Maintainer Summit attendees might be the
> > way to elect a new leader, but others probably have different
> > ideas.
>
> I *literally* suggested that this is why it would be best to do it
> without me in Vancouver.
>
> Because what better opportunity for a palace coup than when the old
> dictator is off gallivanting? It's very traditional.
It's happened occasionally, but it's not very traditional. Usually
when people do a palace coup replacement, the tumbrels are waiting
outside to cart the old dictator off to their sticky end. You can't
afford to leave them around, you see: they can pop up later and spoil
the new republic inordinately.
So, I think if we're running a sanctioned palace coup, we really need
you around to anoint the successor(s).
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-06 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-06 19:44 [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER TOPIC] Succession Planning: Is It time to Throw Linus Under a Bus? James Bottomley
2018-09-06 19:47 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-06 19:51 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-06 20:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-06 20:35 ` Olof Johansson
2018-09-06 20:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-06 20:52 ` Olof Johansson
2018-09-08 10:47 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-08 10:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-08 12:21 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-09 13:56 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-09 20:05 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-06 19:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-06 20:51 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2018-09-06 20:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-06 21:13 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-06 21:20 ` Jens Axboe
2018-09-06 21:28 ` John W. Linville
2018-09-06 21:34 ` Jens Axboe
2018-09-06 21:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-06 22:12 ` David Woodhouse
2018-09-06 22:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-06 22:29 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-06 21:37 ` Olof Johansson
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