The 2024 Maintainers Summit [LWN.net]

By Jonathan Corbet
September 19, 2024

The kernel Maintainers Summit is an annual, invitation-only gathering of a few dozen of the top kernel subsystem maintainers. The 2024 Summit was held on September 17 in Vienna, Austria, immediately prior to the Linux Plumbers Conference. LWN was represented there by Jonathan Corbet (the kernel's documentation maintainer).

The topics discussed at this year's gathering included:

Regression tracking: the kernel's regression tracker is unfunded and unsure about continuing; is this work valuable and how can the task be supported?
Considering kernel pass-through interfaces: what position should the kernel community take toward device drivers that simply pass commands through, unmediated, to a device?
Tools for kernel developers: the current status and future direction for kernel-development tools.
Committing to Rust in the kernel: has the Rust experiment succeeded, and where does it go from here?

Group photo

[ Thanks to the Linux Foundation, LWN's travel sponsor, for supporting our travel to this event. ]