The 2025 Maintainers Summit
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LWN's coverage from this gathering is now complete; the topics discussed at the 2025 Maintainers Summit were:
- Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in kernel development: what sort of role should large-language models play in the development process, and how should that process change, if at all, to accommodate them?
- Best practices for linux-next: how can the community's integration repository be made to work better?
- The state of the kernel Rust experiment: the discussion on removing the "experimental" label for Rust in the kernel and what comes next.
- Better development tools for the kernel: an update on work being done within and around kernel.org.
- Development-process discussions: what happens if Linus Torvalds disappears, and what other topics are developers concerned about?
Group photo
Acknowledgment
Thanks to the Linux Foundation, LWN's travel sponsor, for supporting our
travel to this event.
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