The Kernel Maintainers Summit is an invitation-only gathering of top-level
kernel subsystem maintainers; it is concerned mostly with process-oriented
issues that are not easily worked out on the mailing lists. There was no
maintainers summit in 2020; plans had been made to hold it in an electronic
form, but there turned out to be a lack of things to talk about. In 2021,
though, a number of interesting topics turned up, so an online gathering
was held on September 24 as part of the Linux Plumbers Conference.
Read on for a summary of the discussions held at this year’s Summit.