Hi Hans, On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 09:57:30AM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On 03/03/2023 15:44, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am planning to organize another Media Summit on June 26th, co-located > > with the Embedded Open Source Summit in Prague: > > > > https://events.linuxfoundation.org/embedded-open-source-summit/ > > > > I've put in a request for a room with the Linux Foundation and I am waiting > > for the result of that. For once I was early with my request, so I have good > > hope we'll get a room. Expect the format to be similar to what we did in > > Dublin last year. > > > > I'm a bit early with this 'Request for Topics' as well, but this allows > > everyone who plans to be in Prague to take this into account. > > > > So if you have a topic that you want to discuss, just reply. It would be > > very much appreciated if you can also add a guesstimate of the time you > > need for your topic. > > > > Once I have the details of the room and how many people it can hold, then > > I will send out a second email asking people to register with me if you > > want to join. > > > > Regarding remote participation: only if there is really no other way. > > Meeting face-to-face once a year is important IMHO, and attending remotely > > is a poor substitute. That said, if it is really necessary to set something > > up, then I can do the same I did in Dublin, setting up a Webex meeting. > > That worked reasonably well, except that I will need to bring a better > > speaker since I learned that the laptop speaker was pretty bad. > > > > So, if you have topics for the meeting, just reply! > > I have one: > > Review the subsystem development process: what can be improved? > Are there media developers who are interested in becoming maintainers? > Given the amount of traffic I would definitely like to see one or two > additional maintainers. > > Guesstimate: 45 minutes I'm sure we could spend the whole day discussing this :-) More than incremental improvements to the development process, I think we need to discuss the maintainership model in its entirety. The Linux media subsystem is severely understaffed (if anyone disagrees I'd be very interested in hearing counter-arguments), and I don't think we'll fix that incrementaly without considering on-boarding of additional maintainers, as well as retention of existing contributors. Compared to some other subsystems (I'm thinking about DRM in particular), we have *very* few contributors who stay and become maintainers. That's for me the most important issue to solve if we want to scale. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart
