From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 smtp1.osuosl.org 2B0D481FA8 DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 smtp1.osuosl.org BA32681F8B DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mit.edu; s=outgoing; t=1699942277; bh=zPlZ2mMQBSMkhgbSbeCBKMMiJ/nogJlhUTFrdpiZMJ4=; h=Date:From:Subject:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=bZkISwnRkqX8aSySO8GVh9GAF+DttpHMvjlkAm+c2TvWO1uvvd95PUA2GQUALyyn+ MYVkedqjhjvSr+z5OXxIRZo8LaQSaRSQJvW9leXsmsGnAOcdxl/yr23tl875b0oG/V TS6pvzFB1Hc2LemCD6P1hTsKe4bbQ+IHWmbLnR+NUI56khhi2SDQFg6EgiKtczXt6I nP2mJu4EdAfh/Xfu8VMPzTxgwqjIlJisjJLWDeJtyYkQ5kBWjrBIBzRthroM025ISP Djd0inrgqQ1gbdwg7OwpLpVopCyfzw4B6j2+QMGBnZNuMBEITBcJ1EedrukSYhNHZZ PZzku1evpQ54Q== Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 01:11:13 -0500 From: "Theodore Ts'o" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [Tech-board-discuss] Nomination: Ted Ts'o on TAB List-Id: Public TAB discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org Hi all, [ Note: I know this is late; sorry, I thought until we had until 9am on the 14th. My only excuse is that things have just been super busy, and I was doing last minute Maintainers Summit organization today. :-( ] My two year term on the TAB ends this year, and I'd like to put myself forward for another two years. In the past year, I was the primary author of the Contribution Maturity Model[1]. The CMM was intended to be a way to encourage companies to measure how much their support and encouragement they are giving to their employees to conribute to the upstream, on the theory that "you get what you measure". [1] tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org The CMM also gradually encouraged companies to reward their employees who took on community leadership roles, so we could ensure the continued supply of people who could serve as kernel maintainers. Given the fairly long thread on the ksummit discussion list about maintainer burnout, it's become clear to me that in addition to working with companies to try to address the supply of upstream contributors who could become maintainers, that we also need to work on the demand side of the equation. We are asking individual maintainers to do too much; and so we need to encourage a model where more work can be sharded out and distributed to a wider base of contributors. I am interested in working on addressing these and other issues which are critical to our long-term's community success, and I hope I can return to the TAB to work on these goals.