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

On 10 August 2026 17:30:48 GMT-04:00, Dave Airlie <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Aug 2026 at 17:26, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 08:10:21AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
>> ...
>> > I think people really have a misconception about what goes on at the
>> > maintainer summit, the best explanation I've been given was that it is
>> > Linus's staff meeting. The people that Linus works with closest, get
>> > invited to talk to Linus and help him figure out where the overall
>> > ship is going and where things are going wrong.
>> ...
>> > Your language choice already makes it feel like you see it as some
>> > elite or special group. It's a bunch of technical project managers
>> > talking about the processes of producing the kernel. If a talk about
>> > the technical content of the kernel sneaks in it's very rare and also
>> > usually not of interest to half the room.
>> ...
>> >
>> > > I mean I don't know, maybe it's necessary to run it as a tight ship of
>> > > trusted people, but I think we should at least be more clear about that.
>>
>> I mean this is kinda my point.
>>
>> It is being advertised as X but is actually Y. So say it's Y.
>>
>> That's not what Ted's posts or the write ups or generally any comms about the MS
>> say it is.
>>
>> The CFP-ish bit is probably pretty redundant too on this basis?
>
>In my opinion, quite a lot of the problems that get raised by the CFP
>on this list, often get resolved on this list, which to my mind
>suggests we just need to have a better year round maintainers list
>that doesn't get consumed by patches or internal subsystem matters.
>

Reviewed-by.. err.  Yeah, this sound like a decent idea to explore.