From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AB1344369A for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:38:53 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1765586333; cv=none; b=cIPPH8IPVsb8oarI69mGwgLaM9YH1iQDaQ8thpX+EaUjS8krquinX2LC78KG//H6i5BsLd3QQr/2CBGHqQLpHPzPECROGfHYOfppDpGcAk1OdPCF2jBwJYSblS2SV0wcHlr81LBHc78B3diUjZ/en0SVODijYg/Uk1Nhi4TdER0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1765586333; c=relaxed/simple; bh=e4wfNqAmmxSMfyU9IdvDb3QKyrdBKol9Yu7hMx0UXTQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=GQtjYt+AqhwyVg6i2Eo1fpWPN0trQMVXyfcWz6+G+vpF6HE/gIAmbSFoudfci0FggpdSBeiQVCVSZZWA1yTX/YpLXuSM2kOX6c9u/ml5E01mBer7puZ/BtgACz7c/akqXMF06E1ObZQqSZMyvXVZ72+Ob3HkC8nUOpVmGFgzYxg= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=NfKQnXuX; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="NfKQnXuX" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3EBAFC4CEF1; Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:38:53 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1765586333; bh=e4wfNqAmmxSMfyU9IdvDb3QKyrdBKol9Yu7hMx0UXTQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=NfKQnXuXZ2ljURFYkBsgj+C8imKkaUKZxCf08hEu05Lckbr3+cLYXj8ZKmbMDyV09 Iphsdu3oYEDpKveyFe618LMXHBm3PU0+a7kbQiFSPoQWhMycS8PLR4t7YveoH0yWLF OL4ITtiZq7fUKlA8oVjr0M7cvdqcQ+dhV3jiuNTb6JGMY3f9z9vdLM6zbJiprmuf39 G0Obq/36Q9loSa7eQqJ5jdvknZs80jVrubnotSboqMCVngfbjOp0jlxTyWpLyyush3 i1ac425lpdzny1qcnWdgeIrd78XanRE4Dz+Of9HqN5JpHGdhy9Q4xLkjsB9cjf071O 3UjeBiukwFkyA== Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:38:51 -0500 From: Sasha Levin To: Julia Lawall Cc: tech-board-discuss@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: TAB self-nomination Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: tech-board-discuss@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 08:42:21AM +0900, Julia Lawall wrote: >I'd like to nominate myself to serve on the TAB. > >I have been developing and maintaining the C code transformation tool >Coccinelle since the mid 2000s, and have been contributing to the Linux >kernel since then, both with patches, and by pre-reviewing reports >generated by Coccinelle via 0-day. More recently, I have been looking at >the Linux kernel task scheduler, both in terms of studying the performance >of applications induced by the scheduler as it evolves and in terms of >verification of the code that implements it. I have given talks about the >scheduling work at various conferences. > >My main interests in the context of the TAB are in helping develop >initiatives that improve code quality and code understandability. In >particular, in my recent work on trying to understand the Linux kernel task >scheduler, I can see how the current strategies for documenting the source >code are not always at the right granularity to enable a newcomer to the >subsystem to understand the underlying design choices. I hope to be able >to support initiatives for designing Linux kernel documentation, >formalization of the algorithms used in the code, introduction of safer >languages and coding styles, and approaches to understand the root causes >of performance issues and improvements. > >Finally, my career has been spent in academia, and I have been very >grateful for the opportunity to contribute to and learn from the Linux >kernel community in this context. Today is an exciting time of change in >software development due to the increasing capabilities of AI. This is >currently being discussed in the kernel community, but is also the subject >of extensive research in academia, particularly in the software engineering >community. Some of this research is already motivated by and evaluated on >the Linux kernel. I hope to help provide a pathway for more direct and >fruitful collaboration between researchers and the Linux kernel community, >to help put ideas into practice, and to help inspire new research advances. > >Julia Lawall I've worked with Julia for over a decade now, and she's had a big impact on my career and on me personally. I first got to know Julia through Coccinelle. I thought that it's powered by magic. Julia brought up the idea of using machine learning to find patches that should go to stable. That project became AUTOSEL, and it's helped us backport thousands of fixes that would've been missed otherwise. Working with her taught me a lot about taking research and making it useful for actual kernel work. To me, Julia is a role model. She's always trying to help the people around her. Through outreach, through mentoring, through research. She's impacted hundreds of people in this community, directly and indirectly. She takes the time with newcomers, and that matters. It mattered to me when I was new. I've been lucky to serve three terms on the TAB, and I want to thank everyone for trusting me with that. I'm not running again, but I really hope Julia gets a seat. Julia, thank you. -- Thanks, Sasha