From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] community management/subsystem governance
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 23:15:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2620504.doLR7ekjFm@avalon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.1809101709371.15880@cbobk.fhfr.pm>
On Monday, 10 September 2018 18:13:05 EEST Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, James Bottomley wrote:
> > 1. How do reviews happen? Non email projects tend to have only one
> > review mechanism (gerrit, github, gitlab, etc.) and stick to it. Do
> > we want to pick a technology or allow multiple? I don't think this
> > is kernel wide, it could be a sybsystem choice.
>
> Yeah, but OTOH even now I've heard a lot of feedback about the irregular
> contributors / newcomers being confused by different subsystems having
> different processess and requirements; and those are basically just rather
> "minor" things currently (bugzilla usage, patchwork usage, subscriber-only
> mailinglists, etc), but it's still enough to confuse the hell out of
> people.
That's also one of my concerns. The differences between subsystems that all
use an email-based review process can already be confusing, or just annoying
to handle, especially when specific tools are mandated (the DRM dim tool or
the ARM patch system come to mind). I dread to think about how painful it
would be if one subsystem adopted gitlab, another one gerrit, ... That would
also make changes that cross subsystem boundaries a nightmare to handle. Let's
not forget that many developers are not confined within a single subsystem.
On the other hand, I don't really see how switching the whole kernel to gitlab
(or another system) could happen without frustrating a very large number of
developers. We all know how conservative the community tend to be.
One possible course of action would be to make the new tools optional and keep
email as a common denominator. That way the old dinosaurs who won't adopt any
tool introducing even the slightest disturbance in their work flow (it's not
pleasant to realize that I may well be one of them) will still be able to work
undisturbed, and all the other developers would be able to enjoy the myriad of
amazing features offered by their tooling of choice. This would however put an
extra burden on the new tools that would need to have first-class email
compatibility. I don't know whether that would be feasible.
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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2018-09-10 8:59 [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] community management/subsystem governance Daniel Vetter
2018-09-10 14:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-10 15:08 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-10 15:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-10 15:38 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-10 15:47 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-10 15:55 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-10 16:13 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-10 16:24 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-10 17:10 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-10 15:47 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-09-10 15:56 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-10 16:02 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-09-10 16:07 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-10 16:18 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-09-10 16:23 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-10 16:41 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-09-10 17:06 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-10 19:48 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-10 20:50 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-10 15:49 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-10 16:33 ` Olof Johansson
2018-09-10 19:59 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-10 21:30 ` Josh Triplett
2018-09-10 23:00 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-10 23:16 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-11 1:14 ` Josh Triplett
2018-09-10 15:13 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-10 15:20 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-10 15:31 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-10 20:15 ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]
2018-09-10 21:09 ` Sean Paul
2018-09-10 21:38 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-11 10:06 ` Leon Romanovsky
2018-09-11 8:44 ` Jani Nikula
2018-09-11 9:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-11 10:01 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-11 10:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-11 10:17 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-11 10:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-11 8:41 ` Jani Nikula
2018-09-10 15:31 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-10 16:39 ` Olof Johansson
2018-09-10 17:10 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-12 19:02 ` Darren Hart
2018-09-12 18:59 ` Darren Hart
2018-09-12 20:05 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-12 20:58 ` Darren Hart
2018-09-13 11:27 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-13 11:41 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-13 17:08 ` Darren Hart
2018-09-13 2:56 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-13 5:17 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-10 15:56 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-10 20:32 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-10 20:55 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-10 21:33 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-10 22:44 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-11 12:44 ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-09-11 14:35 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-11 15:17 ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-09-11 15:02 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-11 22:00 ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-09-11 22:17 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-12 8:42 ` Jani Nikula
2018-09-12 18:45 ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-09-12 19:52 ` Dave Airlie
2018-09-12 22:25 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-12 9:14 ` Linus Walleij
2018-09-12 18:23 ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-09-12 18:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-13 12:08 ` Maxime Ripard
2018-09-13 12:57 ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-09-13 13:18 ` Maxime Ripard
2018-09-13 14:25 ` Jani Nikula
2018-09-13 20:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-13 23:02 ` Rodrigo Vivi
2018-09-14 6:47 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-09-14 6:39 ` Dave Airlie
2018-09-14 14:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-17 7:40 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-14 7:08 ` Linus Walleij
2018-09-14 7:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-14 8:08 ` Linus Walleij
2018-09-12 21:21 ` Linus Walleij
2018-09-21 16:05 ` Joe Perches
2018-09-12 22:44 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-10 22:56 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-10 21:11 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-10 23:05 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-17 11:43 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-17 12:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-17 13:04 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-17 13:10 ` Julia Lawall
2018-09-17 13:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-09-17 13:48 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-17 13:58 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-17 14:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-09-17 14:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-17 15:21 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-17 14:18 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-17 16:50 ` Joe Perches
2018-09-17 14:14 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-17 14:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-17 22:39 ` Dave Airlie
2018-09-17 23:04 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-18 8:00 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-18 11:16 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-18 15:26 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-09-18 16:47 ` Tim.Bird
2018-09-18 16:59 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-09-18 17:08 ` Tim.Bird
2018-09-18 17:12 ` Tim.Bird
2018-09-18 17:31 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-09-18 17:42 ` Tim.Bird
2018-09-18 17:55 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-09-18 18:58 ` Tim.Bird
2018-09-18 19:24 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-09-18 17:47 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-18 17:49 ` Greg KH
2018-09-18 18:03 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-09-18 22:46 ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-09-18 18:22 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2018-09-18 19:16 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-18 18:56 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-18 23:05 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-18 7:37 ` Nicolas Ferre
2018-09-18 7:47 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-18 10:38 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-18 16:02 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-18 16:32 ` Luck, Tony
2018-09-18 16:35 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2018-09-18 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-18 17:28 ` Sean Paul
2018-09-18 17:37 ` Tim.Bird
2018-09-21 16:46 ` Olof Johansson
2018-09-21 17:08 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-21 17:16 ` Olof Johansson
2018-09-18 17:21 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-18 21:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-18 23:16 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-18 23:54 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-19 5:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-09-19 9:46 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-18 17:10 ` Tim.Bird
2018-09-18 20:48 ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-18 16:50 ` David Woodhouse
2018-09-18 17:24 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-18 19:22 ` David Woodhouse
2018-09-18 19:30 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-18 19:38 ` Josh Triplett
2018-09-18 19:48 ` David Woodhouse
2018-09-18 8:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-09-17 13:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-09-17 14:14 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-17 21:59 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-09-17 22:17 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-09-10 21:19 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-09-11 8:33 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-09-10 16:29 ` [Ksummit-discuss] Fwd: " Daniel Vetter
2018-09-11 15:35 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Jiri Kosina
2018-09-17 11:11 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Live without email - possible? - Was: " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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