September 22, 2018
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| Proposer | Topic |
|---|---|
| Sasha Levin | Bug-introducing patches (summary) |
| Laura Abbott | Stable trees and release time (summary) |
| James Bottomley | Distribution kernel bugzillas considered harmful (summary) |
| Takashi Iwai | How can we treat staging drivers better? (summary) |
| Kees Cook | API replacement/deprecation (summary) |
| Jiri Kosina | Handling of embargoed security issues (LWN coverage (Subscriber link, thank you, Jon!)) |
| Rodrigo Vivi | Challenges in Upstream vs. Embargoed Development in Intel Graphics (summary) |
| James Bottomley | Succession Planning: Is It time to Throw Linus Under a Bus? (summary) |
| Daniel Vetter | community management/subsystem governance (summary) |
| Konstantin Ryabitsev | Gitlab (or similar) hosting at kernel.org (summary) |
| Eduardo Valentin | CVE patches annotation (summary) |
| Peter Huewe | Deprecation / Removal of old hardware support (summary) |
| Dan Williams | EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL (summary) |
| Dave Airlie | CoC and Linus position (summary) |
Unlike the core topics, the tech topics just have a link to the discussion with no summary, instead just a list of participants and people called out in the discussion. If you send me a URL of summary of a given tech-topic discussion, I will be happy to include a link to your summary in this table.
| Proposer | Topic |
|---|---|
| David Howells | Kernel lockdown and secure boot (participants) |
| Wanpeng Li | Torwards a more scalable KVM hypervisor (participants) |
| Tiejun Chen | A Safety-critical Linux system architecture (participants) |
| Matthew Wilcox | Project Banbury (participants) |
| Sasha Levin and Julia Lawall | Building Stable Kernel Trees with Machine Learning (participants) |
| James Morris | Security (participants) |
| Andrea Parri | Concurrency with tools/memory-model/ (participants) |
| Jason A. Donenfeld | WireGuard: Next-Generation Secure Kernel Network Tunnel (participants) |
| Jason A. Donenfeld | Zinc: Minimal Light-weight Kernel Cryptography API (participants) |