Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757100AbXH1W7y (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:59:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753075AbXH1W7q (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:59:46 -0400 Received: from phunq.net ([64.81.85.152]:55451 "EHLO moonbase.phunq.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752996AbXH1W7p (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:59:45 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:59:09 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Matt Mackall , Josh Boyer , Andy Isaacson , James Bottomley , Matthew Garrett , Tech Board Discuss , linux-kernel , ksummit-2007-discuss@thunk.org References: <20070822224400.GA17255@srcf.ucam.org> <20070824025504.GT9163@parisc-linux.org> <20070824104538.GA31344@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <20070824104538.GA31344@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708281559.11181.phillips@phunq.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 910 Lines: 23 On Friday 24 August 2007 03:45, Theodore Tso wrote: > > 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. > > Given the huge overlap between SPI membership and Debian membership, > and then taking a look at the craziness that takes place on various > Debian mailing lists, such as but not limited to debian-legal, I'm > quite convinced that this would be a baaaaaad idea. Hi Ted, Ever watched a legislative assembly at work? A bad idea perhaps, but the best that has been discovered so far. Regards, Daniel - 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/