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From: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
To: ksummit <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: [Ksummit-discuss] vague topic for maintainers summit
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 20:17:50 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPM=9tx7toB7Bsif6RDo51HNxcGbbHDPHD7DjmF9i+zs-J0HRQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

This topic occured to me on one of the planes I've spent time on this
weekend, so it's kinda vague and handwavy.

Methods for constructively saying No to large companies.

I feel it would be best suited for something like maintainer summit as
people can speak freely without causing employer issues.

The idea would be to exchange ideas and discuss how to address large
bodies of code or stacks that are misdesigned or have major issues
that aren't suitable for stable inclusion, or are big additions to
current drivers/layers, being submitted by large corporations with the
expectations that we would land it because they designed it like that.
I'm not sure if other maintainers face this sort of thing as regularly
as I do, but just wondered if there was value in discussing it.

Dave.

             reply	other threads:[~2019-09-09 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-09 10:17 Dave Airlie [this message]
2019-09-09 10:44 ` [Ksummit-discuss] vague topic for maintainers summit James Bottomley
2019-09-09 11:53   ` Mark Brown
2019-09-09 12:01     ` James Bottomley
2019-09-09 12:18       ` Mark Brown

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