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Landing a Large Series

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This course aims to teach learners how to navigate the complexities of making large infrastructure changes in the Linux kernel. The learning outcomes include understanding the challenges of dealing with multiple subsystems and maintainers, learning strategies to address conflicting feedback, identifying stalled progress, and making recommendations for handling unresponsive or hostile maintainers. The course covers topics such as the characteristics of large series, examples of large series, incremental stages, documentation, engaging with maintainers, avoiding unnecessary changes, and strategies for overcoming obstacles in the development process. The intended audience for this course includes developers, contributors, and individuals interested in understanding the intricacies of managing large-scale changes in the Linux kernel development process.

Syllabus

Introduction
What is a Large Series
Large Series Examples
Why Its Hard to Do a Large Series
What to Do
Incremental Stages
Documentation
Respect and Engage
Unnecessary Changes
Lobbying
Who
Enemies
Learning
Stalls
Giving in

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