On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 22:58 -0700, David Miller wrote:
Actually, it was wrong of me to give that impression. The summit is
also all about technical discussions. However, one of the observations
made over the last few years was that it's hard to have a technical
discussion that actively involves a majority of people in the room, so
most of the technical stuff goes on either in the mini-summits (for
discussions within maintainer areas) or in the hallway (for discussions
across maintainer areas) or in BoF sessions.
However, if there's a technical topic that would occupy the attention of
more people than can conveniently be accommodated in the hallway track,
by all means raise it ... it can be added to the agenda.
That's sort of an extension of the hallway track (especially in
Cambridge where there was a convenient pub across the road).
I agree that having people face to face helps draw heat out of email
discussions, certainly. My observation though (and it may not be
universally held) has been that the majority of the frictions on the
mailing list isn't necessarily coming from the core people who get
summit invites.
James
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