Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Other LLM-r elated topics - tags, newcomers, etc

On July 22, 2026 10:48:40 AM PDT, Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon@kernel=2Eor=
g> wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 05:57:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Or it can happen by looking at the patch itself, and trusting the
>> contribution that way (and then the submitter grows his or her trust
>> over time that way=2E=2E
>>=20
>> But basically, without trusting a submission some way, the submission
>> shouldn't be accepted=2E
>
>At the danger of introducing some kind of "karma system," how do we want =
to
>build this trust? We already do end-to-end attestation, but a) not everyo=
ne
>makes use of it, and b) it still hinges on name recognition=2E
>
>Do we want to dip our toes into some kind of "how many times have I accep=
ted
>patches from this person" automatic accounting system?

This kind of reminds of Debian's maintainer "recency" reporting=2E "This p=
erson sent email to this or that list, committed over there, etc" as an eas=
y to see a per-person overview/dashboard of activity=2E Maybe something lik=
e this for contributors would be good? It'd kind of be an extension of the =
existing tools LWN (and Greg?) use for attribution=2E

-Kees

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Kees Cook