If, for whatever reason, progress on the torvalds/linux.git repository is affected, someone has to get things moving within 72 hours. This person could either be the one who organized the most recent Maintainer Summit or the chair of the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board (TAB).

They will be tasked with pulling together the people who were invited to the last summit, along with members of the TAB.

It gets more complicated after that, but essentially that's it.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure there already is more than one top maintainers for the kernel code anyhow.

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tldr, it's a simple fix but at least now we have some plan instead of no plan.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago

The project must go on!

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Whats so special about 72 hours? It sounds like it would selfdestruct if nobody presses the dead man switch every 3 days?

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

4815162342

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this another inside joke? I don't get it.

[–] fatalicus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Never seen Lost?

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, deep cut. I did not see that string as separate numbers. Thank you for the explanation.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yes, there are a number of core kernel maintainers (alongside GK-H). Last week I got to spend the week with those designing (and am now participating in) the next iteration of how keys will be managed for the kernel supply chain. Fun times.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Something to be proud of I'm sure!