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Documentation: Project continuity 



Document project continuity procedures.  This is a plan for a plan for
navigating events that affect the forward progress of the canonical
Linux repository, torvalds/linux.git.

It is a follow-up from Maintainer Summit [1].

Co-developed-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1050179/

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Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linux kernel project continuity

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The Linux kernel development project is widely distributed, with over

100 maintainers each working to keep changes moving through their own

repositories. The final step, though, is a centralized one where changes

are pulled into the mainline repository. That is normally done by Linus

Torvalds but, as was demonstrated by the 4.19 release in 2018, there are

others who can do that work when the need arises.



Should the maintainers of that repository become unwilling or unable to

do that work going forward (including facilitating a transition), the

project will need to find one or more replacements without delay. The

process by which that will be done is listed below. $ORGANIZER is the

last Maintainer Summit organizer or the current Linux Foundation (LF)

Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Chair as a backup.



- Within 72 hours, $ORGANIZER will open a discussion with the invitees

  of the most recently concluded Maintainers Summit. A meeting of those

  invitees and the TAB, either online or in-person, will be set as soon

  as possible in a way that maximizes the number of people who can

  participate.



- If there has been no Maintainers Summit in the last 15 months, the set of

  invitees for this meeting will be determined by the TAB.



- The invitees to this meeting may bring in other maintainers as needed.



- This meeting, chaired by $ORGANIZER, will consider options for the

  ongoing management of the top-level kernel repository consistent with

  the expectation that it maximizes the long term health of the project

  and its community.



- Within two weeks, a representative of this group will communicate to the

  broader community, using the ksummit@lists.linux.dev mailing list, what

  the next steps will be.



The Linux Foundation, as guided by the TAB, will take the steps

necessary to support and implement this plan.

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   stable-kernel-rules

   management-style

   researcher-guidelines

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Dealing with bugs

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