Look Who it Was Random video

BoF: Bash the Kernel Maintainers - Laurent Pinchart, Ideas on Board

746 views · Published 24 October 2017 · 38:13 · Indexed 14 November 2026

Channel: The Linux Foundation · 2017 · Science & Technology

Watch on YouTube

BoF: Bash the Kernel Maintainers - Laurent Pinchart, Ideas on Board

The Linux kernel maintainance process is known for often causing frustration among developers. This is a serious issue that the kernel community has been trying to address for years through various forums and initiatives. Most of these have tried to improve the maintenance process from a maintainer's point of view. The large crowd of silent occasional or smaller contributors remains today mostly unheard.

This BOF will try to tackle the kernel maintenance issue from another angle by giving a voice to all contributors. It will be a unique occasion to share the problems you experience when interacting with the upstream kernel community. All feedback will be aggregated in an anonymous form and used to improve the kernel maintenance process.

About Laurent Pinchart
Laurent Pinchart has been a Linux kernel developer since 2001. He has written media-related Linux drivers for consumer and embedded devices and is one of the V4L core developers. Laurent is the founder and owner of Ideas on board, a company specialized in embedded Linux design and development. He has given Linux kernel-related talks at the FOSDEM, LPC and ELC. He currently works with the Renesas Linux kernel team where he develops a wide range of embedded drivers including DRM/KMS and V4L.

More from this channel