From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754239AbYE1TJf (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 15:09:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752644AbYE1TJ2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 15:09:28 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:42986 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752640AbYE1TJ1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 15:09:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:08:37 -0400 From: Rik van Riel To: James Bottomley Cc: ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project Message-ID: <20080528150837.685aa677@bree.surriel.com> In-Reply-To: <1211995212.3445.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1211995212.3445.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.10.4; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 28 May 2008 12:20:12 -0500 James Bottomley wrote: > The most obvious solution might be to shut the Janitors project down, or > at least more tightly manage its TODO list I've had some limited success with: http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects One problem is that people end up beginning with a project but for some reason stop working on it later - with no indication as to whether the project ended up being too difficult, or they ran out of time, or something else happened... -- All rights reversed.