From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758048AbYE2U71 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 16:59:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752889AbYE2U7U (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 16:59:20 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:46800 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752093AbYE2U7T (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 16:59:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 14:59:18 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: David Miller Cc: tytso@mit.edu, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project Message-ID: <20080529205917.GA22636@parisc-linux.org> References: <20080528.225826.40264516.davem@davemloft.net> <1212041839.8888.38.camel@pasglop> <20080529124548.GC8065@mit.edu> <20080529.135431.235149338.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080529.135431.235149338.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:54:31PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > Ted, we are adults and professional kernel hackers. > > If you put us in a room together, we know what the heck to talk > about and what is relevant. So saying we need to plan the topics and > invite the right people, that's pure hogwash, just invite the same > kind of people we've always been inviting and it will be fine. Ooh, do I hear a supporter for my idea from a few years ago of having half the time in sessions and half the time in the hallway track? (I always felt the presentations were more or less useless. Maybe that was different last year.) -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."