[ATTEND] Kernel summit - bwh

June 15th, 2012 - 07:50 pm ET by Ben Hutchings | Report spam

As a member of the Debian kernel team and maintainer of the 3.2.y stable
series, I'm interested in discussing things like:

- Ensuring that distributions can enable new features with minimal
impact to those who don't use them
- User documentation for new features (that aren't syscalls)
- Process for backporting and re-testing bug fixes
- Forwarding and tracking of bugs from distributions to upstream
- Choosing kernel versions for distributions and 'longterm' stable
branches
- Early detection of bugs (static checking, test suites, more compiler
diagnostics...)

Also:

- Maintenance of linux-firmware, and (if I haven't dealt with it by
then) getting rid of the firmware directory

Ben.

Ben Hutchings
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#1 Josh Boyer
June 16th, 2012 - 04:00 pm ET | Report spam
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:44:18AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
As a member of the Debian kernel team and maintainer of the 3.2.y stable
series, I'm interested in discussing things like:

- Ensuring that distributions can enable new features with minimal
impact to those who don't use them
- User documentation for new features (that aren't syscalls)
- Process for backporting and re-testing bug fixes
- Forwarding and tracking of bugs from distributions to upstream
- Choosing kernel versions for distributions and 'longterm' stable
branches
- Early detection of bugs (static checking, test suites, more compiler
diagnostics...)



I'd very much like to discuss all of that.

Also:

- Maintenance of linux-firmware, and (if I haven't dealt with it by
then) getting rid of the firmware directory



This as well, though it might be small enough to do in a hallway track.

josh


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