TAB nomination: Mike Rapoport

TAB nomination: Mike Rapoport

[Mike Rapoport]

Hi,

I'd like to put my name forward for the TAB.

I've been contributing to various subsystems in the kernel since 2006. For
the last couple of years I work on memory management, and recently on kexec
handover and live update.

I like cleaning up code: taking twenty architectures' slightly different
ways of doing the same early-boot thing and turning them into one boring
and well-tested one, at least after a few follow-up fixes.

This taught me about the importance of less sexy but still critical
infrastructure work, and I'd like to make sure it gets a voice when the TAB
deals with outside entities.

Working across different subsystems has also taught me to deal with
different kinds of problems and people - device drivers, memory management,
and architecture maintainers have different perspectives and different
communication styles. That's the kind of experience I'd like to bring to
the TAB.

For several years I have an active role in organizing the Linux Plumbers
Conference. LPC is about as close as the community gets to being in one
room, and I'd like a seat on the TAB partly to help keep LPC successful.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.