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To: Steven Rostedt , Linus Torvalds Cc: James Bottomley , ksummit@lists.linux.dev References: <8ae41b73983eee6ba716a61b8701df6522a02baa.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20260806194153.6443a3ba@gandalf.local.home> <20260807155120.7142e78b@gandalf.local.home> Content-Language: en-US From: Shuah Khan In-Reply-To: <20260807155120.7142e78b@gandalf.local.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 8/7/26 13:51, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 10:27:27 -0700 > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> The maintainer summit being a pretty constant "in-group" is >> fundamental, but it still feels a bit sad and wrong to me. The current format for MS is definitely more focused and easier to discuss maintainership process and issues. The larger format we had prior to the current one had some benefits as it allowed wider participation compared to the current. I definitely benefited from listening in on these discussions to get a feel for how the community makes technical and process decisions when we had the larger format. MS PC continues to invite new developers though fewer probably compared to the old format. Maybe we could look into bringing that aspect back by making some discussions wider and make that part of the kernel summit track. It would become more important as the top maintainers reduce their engagement overtime. thanks, -- Shuah