Greg Kroah-Hartman moves to the Linux Foundation

[Posted February 1, 2012 by corbet]

The Linux Foundation has announced that Greg Kroah-Hartman has joined the organization as a fellow. "In his role as Linux Foundation Fellow, Kroah-Hartman will continue his work as the maintainer for the Linux stable kernel branch and a variety of subsystems while working in a fully neutral environment. He will also work more closely with Linux Foundation members, workgroups, Labs projects, and staff on key initiatives to advance Linux."

Greg Kroah-Hartman moves to the Linux Foundation

Posted Feb 1, 2012 15:20 UTC (Wed) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] (7 responses)

There goes Novell's score in the next release of the LWN kernel contribution stats.

Congratulations, Greg, and enjoy the new job.

Greg Kroah-Hartman moves to the Linux Foundation

Posted Feb 1, 2012 16:44 UTC (Wed) by kragilkragil2 (guest, #76172) [Link] (5 responses)

Greg KH is not one person. Not possible, he does too much work. I won't be fooled. There must be numerous, so it is totally plausible that one of them stays at Suse/Novell/Attachmate, maybe even one each.

Anyways, congrats!

Greg Kroah-Hartman moves to the Linux Foundation

Posted Feb 1, 2012 18:35 UTC (Wed) by mbar (guest, #73813) [Link]

Yeah. He once replied to my post on Gentoo Forums, at the time I did not know who the "gregkh" fella is :)

Greg Kroah-Hartman moves to the Linux Foundation

Posted Feb 2, 2012 9:26 UTC (Thu) by stumbles (guest, #8796) [Link]

For sure! This "Greg Kroah-Hartman" "guy" is like that "PJ" "gal" over at Groklaw. No single person can do that much work.

Greg Kroah-Hartman moves to the Linux Foundation

Posted Feb 2, 2012 11:17 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link]

>Greg KH is not one person.

The Andrew Morton of the 2010s.. :)

Greg Kroah-Hartman moves to the Linux Foundation

Posted Feb 2, 2012 15:33 UTC (Thu) by david.a.wheeler (subscriber, #72896) [Link] (1 responses)

I wish the very best to Greg K-H. He manages to do a remarkable amount of work that helps us all.

I agree that he does too much to be just one ordinary person, but I had always assumed he has a time-turner.

Greg Kroah-Hartman moves to the Linux Foundation

Posted Feb 3, 2012 20:12 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

He does. Those periods when no stable kernels come out? He's just got hit with a DO NOT MESS WITH TIME exception and had to wait until he got past the paradox window and could try again.

Greg Kroah-Hartman moves to the Linux Foundation

Posted Feb 2, 2012 0:34 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

Meh, we'll miss him, and not just for the stats :(

He is a great guy who does instead of talks. He has promised to stay around in openSUSE and I'm really glad he said that.

Greg Kroah-Hartman moves to the Linux Foundation

Posted Feb 2, 2012 16:33 UTC (Thu) by ds2horner (subscriber, #13438) [Link] (3 responses)

I am in agreement with the general regard for Greg and this is not intended to detract from that.

But how can one say LF is "a fully neutral environment"? And even if that were so by some definition, how can that be billed as an "always good thing" TM? As best I can tell, vested interest have always provided motivation for improvements in Linux.

The statement is a step up from the previous self assertion: "The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting technical events".

Is this an example of neutrality creep or of some neutrality creep?

I couldn't find this question addressed in other responses (my search did come up with that quote on LF), but if this is has already been discussed here I'm interested in a link.

Thanks.

Greg Kroah-Hartman moves to the Linux Foundation

Posted Feb 2, 2012 22:01 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (2 responses)

remember that in large part the Linux Foundation was created to have a way to pay Linus to work on Linux full time without having him work for any distro or other company that would appear to have an agenda to push about what should happen in Linux.

LF has since hired additional folks, but the intent seems to be the same.

If these people worked for Red Hat, then statements by Red Hat Management would be viewed as having more influence on development directions than they really do.

The same thing goes the other way. Just look at all the flames directed at Sony because one of their employees decided to contribute to toybox, even though there are probably fewer than a half dozen people in Sony who even knew that that employee was doing so.

Greg Kroah-Hartman moves to the Linux Foundation

Posted Feb 10, 2012 12:10 UTC (Fri) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link] (1 responses)

Not entirely true - they are pushing linux distro's (meego, earlier, now that new thingy) for example. Realize that it is basically a bunch of companies who figure out together what the LF should be doing. Is that good or bad? Hard to say...

Greg Kroah-Hartman moves to the Linux Foundation

Posted Feb 10, 2012 16:13 UTC (Fri) by gregkh (subscriber, #8) [Link]

No, the LF is NOT pushing a distro (be it Moblin/Meego/Tizen/whatever).

That group is merely a bunch of LF member companies coming together to work
on a project in a shared area, which is what the LF facilitates for its
member companies. It does this for a number of different projects.

Remember, Meego is just like the "Carrier Grade Linux" project, neither
of which represent an "official" LF position at all.