Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Time to call it quits for the maintainer summit?

On 8/8/26 6:51 PM, Theodore Tso wrote:
> As another thought, when we had 100+ people attending the Kernel
> Summit, that we would make a *point* of inviting people who had never
> attended Kernel Summits before, so we would get new blood attending
> the Summit.  After we significantly reduced the the size of the
> Maintainers Summit to 30, we've stopped doing this as a deliberate
> practice.  Should we change this?  For example, we could decide to
> include a few people who aren't currently acting as a maintainer, but
> are fairly prolific contirbutors / reviewers.  I do *include* such

I think this is a very good idea and would like to see this change.

(and I'm not looking for an invitation :)

> people for consideration in our ballots, but they tend not to be
> chosen by the program committee.  Should we change our criteria to
> explicitly include a few such folks?

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~Randy