From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756792Ab2FPTbi (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:31:38 -0400 Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37]:60259 "EHLO mx2.netapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756153Ab2FPTbh (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:31:37 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,783,1330934400"; d="scan'208";a="655865749" From: "Myklebust, Trond" To: "ksummit-2012-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org" CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: [ATTEND] Discussion: role of the maintainer? Thread-Topic: [ATTEND] Discussion: role of the maintainer? Thread-Index: AQHNS/abOYKvrFmdEkm0pnWCMkPIXw== Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:31:19 +0000 Message-ID: <1339875074.8267.87.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.104.60.115] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-ID: <29F803A70CE70849A8425DBC91799445@tahoe.netapp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by nfs id q5GJVhxL013053 Hi, This is a spin off from the discussion topic that was started by Thomas Gleixner. I'd like to turn this into a full discussion on the role of the Linux Maintainer. Currently, the Linux maintainer appears to be responsible for filling all of the traditional roles of software architect, software developer, patch reviewer, patch committer, and software maintainer. My question is whether or not there might be some value in splitting out some of these roles, so that we can assign them to different people, and thus help to address the scalability issues that Thomas raised? For instance, would it be useful to have a separate 'software maintainer' role for dealing with post-merge issues, such as ensuring that bugs and regressions get fixed by someone? If so, how do we ensure that people get credit for the roles that they assume? Should we perhaps add additional entries to the MAINTAINERS file for some of these responsibilities? Cheers Trond -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com www.netapp.com {.n++%ݶw{.n+{G{ayʇڙ,jfhz_(階ݢj"mG?&~iOzv^m ?I