Burning Down the Castle
Channel: LinuxConfAu 2018 - Sydney, Australia
Date: 25/01/2018

Daniel Vetter

http://lca2018.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/61/

My retrospective on 5 years of Linux kernel maintainership: Why the kernel community is a lot more broken than it looks, why maintainers benefit from that and why it's unlikely to change.

Just dissecting the gruesome workings of a broken community might be entertaining, but not all that enlightening. This talk will also look at how well-built communities, both large&small, avoid these pitfalls.

This talk was given at Linux.conf.au 2018 (LCA2018) which was held on 22-26 January 2018 in Sydney Australia.

linux.conf.au is a conference about the Linux operating system, and all aspects of the thriving ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software that has grown up around it. Run since 1999, in a different Australian or New Zealand city each year, by a team of local volunteers, LCA invites more than 500 people to learn from the people who shape the future of Open Source. For more information on the conference see https://linux.conf.au/

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