Role of a Linux Kernel Maintainer

At LinuxCon Japan a few weeks ago I gave a talk entitled, "Linux Kernel Maintainers, What they do and how you can help them."

The video of the talk is now online here if you want to see what I said, and the full slides, and text of what I said can be found in the presentation's repository.

If you have ever wondered why a maintainer of an open source project could be a bit grumpy about anything you have sent them, I strongly suggest you go read the notes I wrote for that talk, or the slides, which includes all speaker notes.

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• Greg Kroah-Hartman speaks(Jan 06, 2010)
• Video: Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman on 20 years of Linux @ LinuxCon Japan 2011(Jun 13, 2011)
• Greg Kroah-Hartman Becomes Linux Foundation Fellow - Gives SUSE the Boot(Feb 01, 2012)
• Linux kernel with long-term support(Dec 07, 2010)
• What Greg Does(Feb 21, 2012)