[Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] depth of our git tree structure; HID subsystem; kernel bugzilla; stable review
Jiri Kosina
jkosina at suse.cz
Fri Jun 15 21:32:23 UTC 2012
Hi everybody,
I'd like to attend Kernel Summit this year. Selection of the topics I'd
consider worth discussing:
(1) HID subsystem, which I am happy to maintain, has grown from "feeding
data mechanically into input layer" in several aspects -- it can be
seen as a "leader" in multitouch in Linux these days, and we are
extending its coverage of transport protocols as well
(not only USB/Bluetooth, but expanding to to I2C, IIO, and userspace
transport drivers mostly because of Bluetooth-LE).
Thus, as we are gaining "cross-subsystem" coverage, discussion with
affected subsystem maintainers would be welcome. If "general KS
public" is interested, I can of course give a "state of the union"
short overview presentation.
(2) This might be more question to Linus rather than discussion topic, but
still ... Time to time I have a gut feeling that our development
"tree structure" is not as deep as it could/should be, mostly because
many people are sending pull requests directly to Linus instead of
going through appropriate "upstream" trees.
I'd like to know whether it's just me having this feeling, or there
are other maintainers sharing this. If the latter is the case,
discussion might be useful.
(3) Kernel bugzilla; do we really want it for general public bug reports?
For trees I am maintaining, I very much prefer all bug reports and
patch reviews/discussions to happen via e-mail; consequently, I am
not very careful when it comes to reports received through
bugzilla.kernel.org, and tend to drop bugzilla-reported issues on the
floor silently. I understand that users/bug reporters might be
confused in which cases to prefer bugzilla over mailinglist (and vice
versa), so it'd be nice to actually try to improve the situation
here.
(4) I am a responsible maintainer of kernels for all SUSE enterprise
products. As such, I am dealing with -stable trees on a regular
basis. It's sometimes difficult to decide about -stable tree merge
into our enterprise tree (depending on the development stage of the
enterprise kernel), due to the amount of changes it flows into
-stable. I'd like to understand whether all the patches are really
always necessary, and how can we help with review/filtering.
(5) If James is invited so that he can (in the order of several
magnitudes) increase the number of people in the group who
actually know how to dress for formal ocasions properly, I'd like to
pay my debt to him (I have promised to let him taste a really good
plum brandy, but the brain cell that was responsible for not
forgetting this died prematurely last year).
Thanks,
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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