linux-kernel - Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Folios as a potential Kernel/Maintainers Summit topic?

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Message-ID: <f8561816ab06cedf86138a4ad64e7ff7b33e2c07.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 Sep 2021 07:14:11 -0400
From:   James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:     Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Chris Mason <clm@...com>
Cc:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        "ksummit@...ts.linux.dev" <ksummit@...ts.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Folios as a potential Kernel/Maintainers
 Summit topic?

On Thu, 2021-09-16 at 17:00 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 08:38:13PM +0000, Chris Mason wrote:
> > Agree here.  Mailing lists make it really hard to figure out when
> > these conflicts are resolved, which is why I love using google docs
> > for that part.
> 
> I would caution that Google docs aren't universally accessible. China
> blocks access to many Google resources, and now Russia purportedly
> does the same. Perhaps a similar effect can be reached with a git
> repository with limited commit access? At least then commits can be
> attested to individual authors.

In days of old, when knights were bold and cloud silos weren't
invented, we had an ancient magic handed down by the old gods who spoke
non type safe languages.  They called it wiki and etherpad ... could we
make use of such tools today without committing heresy against our
cloud overlords?

James