Can CIP have a group account in kernel.org

Hi Ben,

it seems that LTSI[1] and XEN[2] has group accounts at kernel.org

At today's IRC meeting, some of the attendees were wondering if we can also have one so we can transfer the kernel from your personal account to the group account, having the new kernel maintainer as "account admin". Is that possible? Do we need to ask somebody about it?

Best Regards

[1] http://git.linuxfoundation.org/?p=ltsi-kernel.git
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git/about/

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Hi Agustin,

Just a small fix: ltsi is not in kernel.org but in the linuxfoundation (as your links show). There are other groups such as "stable" and "rt" in kernel.org.

Best regards,
Daniel

Hi,

Obviously, if you move Ben's tree to the new cip group, you should also move my linux-cip-rt tree.

Thanks,
Daniel

Sorry for the slow response.

All members of a group need to already have kernel.org accounts. The process for getting an account is described at
<https://korg.wiki.kernel.org/userdoc/accounts>. There is no guarantee that developers contracted to maintain the CIP kernel would be approved to get an account. Getting the necessary PGP key signatures, which requires in-person meetings, could be difficult for some.

My understanding is that there is no such thing as a group administrator. Group membership is managed directly by the kernel.org administrators at the request of the existing members. However, in my experience with the linux-firmware.git repository, Konstantin responds to these requests quickly.

I understand the desire to have the CIP kernel hosted on git.kernel.org, to convey that we're part of the kernel development community. But I'm not sure that it's actually worth the trouble.

Ben.

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