[Ksummit-2007-discuss] Proposed 2007 summit agenda

[Jonathan Corbet]

Here, far later than can possibly be justified, is a working version of
the agenda for the 2007 kernel summit.  It differs a bit from previous
years in that it is heavily slanted toward process-oriented discussions
rather than attempts to get into deep technical detail.  Most sessions
still do not have names on them, and names which have been assigned are
subject to change.

Thoughts?

jon

Kernel Summit 2007 agenda v0.05

DAY 1

9:00	Opening remarks [Ted T'so]

9:30	Distributor kernel maintainer panel - is the kernel community 
	doing well for its primary customers?
	[panelists: Dave Jones, ...]

10:30	Break

11:00	Mini-summit reports
		Power management [Len Brown]
		Filesystems [Ted T'so]
		Storage [James Bottomley]
	[How many of these have happened recently enough to be
	interesting?] 

12:00	Lunch

1:00	The greater kernel ecosystem [mod: Greg KH]
		Achieving better integration with glibc, udev, hal, etc.
		Avoiding user-space breakage
			including /sys
		Review process for new system calls?
		Hidden file descriptors?

1:30	Developer relations
		Recruiting more developers (worldwide!)
			Joining the asian dog-and-pony team
		Retaining existing developers
		Worry worrying about or is the status quo OK?

2:00	Kernel quality [Andrew Morton]
		Do we still believe it's not getting buggier?
		The reviewer shortage
		Bug tracking
		Formalize stabilization releases?
			Perhaps aligned with enterprise distro releases?

3:00	Break

3:30	Hardware [Dirk Hohndel]
		Getting better participation from vendors
		Reports on nouveau, avivo, dadwifi, etc.
		How to reward cooperative vendors (and keep Dirk happy)?

4:30	Lightning talks



DAY 2

9:00	Customer panel

10:00	Real-time and scheduler
		Is there a path toward merging what remains of -rt?
		Do we want to merge syslets/threadlets?
			If so how do we make it mergeable
			If not, how do we fix AIO?

10:30	Break

11:00	Scalability [Nick Piggin, Matt Mackall]
		Alan's kernel bloat status report
		Are we prepared for upcoming hardware
		How much is too much?
		Scalability to small devices too

11:30	Memory management
		Variable page size and alternatives
		Starvation issues
		Why are mm patches so hard to merge?

12:30	Lunch

1:30	Containers [Eric Biederman, Paul Menage]
		What does the final picture look like
			What will it cost?
		Last chance to argue about generic process containers
		Some overall picture of the resource management solution?

2:00	Documentation
		Is it possible to improve it?
		Do we want a central documentation location?
		Managing translations
		Organizing kernel messages - and living with the result

2:30	Break

3:00	Some of Andrew's process questions [Andrew Morton]
		Are cleanups worth it
		Handling big-cross-tree patches
		Are we going too fast?
		Dealing with problem maintainers
		Time to beat back the coding style police?

4:00	Future kernel summits
		Is the format of the summit right?  How can we improve it?
		Should we expand the number of invitees?  Shrink it?
		Creating an organizing committee to help determine next steps.

4:30	Some sort of closing session, preferably involving beer.