Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754111AbXHXEzh (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:55:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751880AbXHXEz1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:55:27 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:58303 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750735AbXHXEz0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:55:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:54:14 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Matt Mackall , Josh Boyer , Andy Isaacson , James Bottomley , Matthew Garrett , Tech Board Discuss , linux-kernel , ksummit-2007-discuss@thunk.org Subject: Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections Message-ID: <20070824045413.GX30705@stusta.de> References: <20070822224400.GA17255@srcf.ucam.org> <20070823002618.GO9163@parisc-linux.org> <20070823003748.GR30556@waste.org> <20070823004209.GP9163@parisc-linux.org> <20070823011953.GS30556@waste.org> <1187832907.3410.141.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070824012730.GA1243@hexapodia.org> <625fc13d0708231934q5b369b4fh1a5c83def0e56a0d@mail.gmail.com> <20070824025254.GH21720@waste.org> <20070824025504.GT9163@parisc-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20070824025504.GT9163@parisc-linux.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1559 Lines: 38 On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 08:55:04PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:52:54PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > > The other part of the puzzle is including the wider Linux community. > > As I said; what's wrong with just using SPI membership? It's not like > it is remotely hard for kernel hackers to gain membership in SPI. And > somebody else takes care of the bureaucracy for you. My impression as an SPI member is that in practice most SPI members come from the SPI projects [1], and due to Debian's size Debian developers are the majority of SPI members. If you elect at KS it'll favor kernel developers. If you let all SPI members elect it'll favor Debian developers. The Linux Foundation homepage says "The Technical Advisory Board (TAB) provides the Linux kernel community a direct voice into The Linux Foundation’s activities...". If this is the intention, an election at the KS is the best solution. cu Adrian [1] the most important task of SPI is handling money for the SPI projects (and having an US tax-exempt status) -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/