[Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] community management/subsystem governance

[Jiri Kosina]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> For example, we've had the "trivial tree", which tends to be a really 
> thankless project, that might well be managed way more easily by just 
> having a random tree that lots of people can commit to, and we could 
> even encourage the github (gitlab?) model of random non-kernel people 
> just sending their random trees to it, and have then the group of 
> committers be able to merge the changes (and at least on github, the 
> default merge is just a fast-forward, so it actually acts more like a 
> patch queue than a git tree).
> 
> And the reason I mention the trivial tree is not because the trivial
> tree itself is all that interesting or because I'd like to belittle
> that model ("that will only work for trivial unimportant stuff"), but
> because it might be a good area to experiment in, and a way to get
> people used to the flow.

For whatever that is worth -- I have had absolutely zero time to maintain 
that tree for past ~1 year, so I am open to any changes there that would 
make sense :)

Suggestions / help offers welcome.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs