Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Time to call it quits for the maintainer summit?

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

"Theodore Tso" <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> As another thought, when we had 100+ people attending the Kernel
> Summit, that we would make a *point* of inviting people who had never
> attended Kernel Summits before, so we would get new blood attending
> the Summit.  After we significantly reduced the the size of the
> Maintainers Summit to 30, we've stopped doing this as a deliberate
> practice.  Should we change this?

FWIW, in my role in the program committee, I have always tried to think
about who we should bring in that hasn't been there before - with a
certain amount of success, I hope.

We could perhaps do better, maybe with a rule that N% of the seats
should be filled by first-time attendees.  But we do also have to be
sure that the right people are in the room handle the topics under
consideration, and that will inevitably include a number of old-timers
who have been there before.

jon