From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, "Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
"Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
ksummit@lists.linux.dev,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Time to call it quits for the maintainer summit?
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:21:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe049a6b-be36-40dc-9d52-506b65b1f74b@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aoRlKyICddc7U353@mit.edu>
On 8/18/26 16:02, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 09:09:22AM -0500, Liam R. Howlett wrote:
>>
>> When succession is happening, it would be good to have the new person
>> shadow the outgoing person.
>
> That's a good idea, where it's possible. Have you suggested this to
> David and Andrew? I know there are a lot of discussions about the
> succession within the mm subsystem, and since it's (from an outsider's
> perspective), it's a large and very healthy community, my personal
> preference would be to let the mm subsystem work through this
> succession, and then we can take learnings a year or so after the
> succession is complete.
I am not sure why we are suddenly discussing the MM transition here.
Liam, do you see a particular problem in the way we are currently tackling the
transition? Or was that just a general comment, independent of the MM thingy?
--
Cheers,
David
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Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-06 15:34 [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Time to call it quits for the maintainer summit? James Bottomley
2026-08-06 23:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-08-07 13:53 ` Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel)
2026-08-07 14:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-08-07 16:33 ` James Bottomley
2026-08-07 17:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-08-07 19:03 ` James Bottomley
2026-08-07 19:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-08-07 20:12 ` Shuah Khan
2026-08-09 1:51 ` Theodore Tso
2026-08-09 18:47 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-09 19:04 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-08-09 21:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-08-10 8:14 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-10 13:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-08-10 20:35 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-08-10 21:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-08-11 0:14 ` Theodore Tso
2026-08-18 13:09 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-08-18 14:02 ` Theodore Tso
2026-08-18 14:21 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-08-18 15:32 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-08-18 17:46 ` Theodore Tso
2026-08-18 18:18 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-18 14:51 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-18 14:52 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-18 16:45 ` Theodore Tso
2026-08-18 17:00 ` James Bottomley
2026-08-18 17:25 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-09 21:56 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-08-10 1:26 ` Theodore Tso
2026-08-10 2:40 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-08-10 8:08 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-10 14:56 ` Theodore Tso
2026-08-10 15:49 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-09 18:39 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-09 18:42 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-09 22:10 ` Dave Airlie
2026-08-10 7:26 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-10 13:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-08-10 13:32 ` James Bottomley
2026-08-10 14:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-08-10 15:23 ` Mark Brown
2026-08-10 15:52 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-11 3:24 ` Dave Airlie
2026-08-11 5:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-11 6:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2026-08-11 13:29 ` Mark Brown
2026-08-10 22:47 ` Mark Brown
2026-08-11 8:12 ` Dup commits in NFC trees [Was: Time to call it quits for the maintainer summit?] Matthieu Baerts
2026-08-11 13:17 ` Mark Brown
2026-08-11 16:39 ` David Heidelberg
2026-08-11 16:58 ` Mark Brown
2026-08-11 3:29 ` [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Time to call it quits for the maintainer summit? Dave Airlie
2026-08-11 7:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2026-08-11 8:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2026-08-11 19:54 ` Rodrigo Vivi
2026-08-11 23:10 ` Mark Brown
2026-08-12 20:33 ` Dave Airlie
2026-08-13 11:48 ` Mark Brown
2026-08-18 9:38 ` Jani Nikula
2026-08-18 16:50 ` Mark Brown
2026-08-11 14:26 ` Mark Brown
2026-08-12 6:00 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-08-12 6:20 ` Dave Airlie
2026-08-12 7:07 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-08-12 7:41 ` Greg KH
2026-08-12 8:05 ` Dave Airlie
2026-08-12 12:48 ` Mark Brown
2026-08-10 21:30 ` Dave Airlie
2026-08-10 21:45 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-08-11 8:22 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-11 8:19 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-11 9:06 ` Jiri Kosina
2026-08-11 9:34 ` Dave Airlie
2026-08-11 13:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-08-10 7:42 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2026-08-10 15:07 ` Theodore Tso
2026-08-07 12:58 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-08-07 13:09 ` James Bottomley
2026-08-07 13:28 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-08-07 20:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-08-07 19:15 ` Chris Mason
2026-08-07 19:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-08-07 23:19 ` Theodore Tso
2026-08-10 13:54 ` James Bottomley
2026-08-10 14:41 ` Steven Rostedt
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