[Ksummit-discuss] Reminder for kernel summit nominations

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Fri May 9 16:12:34 UTC 2014


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2014 11:40:35 -0400
> Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> -linux-kernel
>>
>
>> I deliberately didn't include lists of names of "people that would be
>> useful if we're going to have discussion X", since we that presupposes
>> that we are definitely going to have a particular discussion.  If you
>> see someone who you think should attend regardless of whether we
>> decide to include topic X, please send a separate nomination.
>
> I don't know why not. Even if we do not decide to talk about discussion
> X, it does not hurt to add people that are useful to the discussion in
> the nomination list. Just because they were mentioned, means they
> probably have some importance to the kernel and should be considered.
>
> That doesn't mean that we are going to invite them, any more than we
> would invite others on the list.

That was kind of my thinking as well.  Put another way, not having
their name on any list guarantees they won't get an invite.  I'd
rather at least allow for the possibility...

If it would be helpful, I can go back through the threads today and
draft a topic specific nomination list of those not already on the
list otherwise.

josh


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