2025 Maintainers Summit development process discussions

The final part of the 2025 Maintainers Summit was devoted to the kernel's development process itself. There were two sessions, one on continuity and succession planning, and the traditional discussion, led by Linus Torvalds, on any pain points that the community is experiencing. There was not a lot that developers were unhappy about, and there are now more explicit plans in the works to provide a process should Torvalds abruptly become unable to fill his role.

2025年维护者峰会的最后部分专注于内核的开发流程。共有两个议题：一个是关于连续性和接班计划的讨论，另一个是由林纳斯·托瓦兹主持的传统讨论，针对社区在开发过程中遇到的痛点。本次会议中开发者的不满不多，目前也已有更明确的计划，以应对托瓦兹突然无法继续担任角色的情况。

Succession planning
The succession topic was addressed first in a session led by Dan Williams; he described it as an uplifting subject tied to "our eventual march toward death", and offered to talk about Link tags instead if it got to be too much. More seriously, he pointed out that people do worry about what might ensue if something were to happen to Torvalds without a designated successor in place, and wanted to talk about a potential way to address those concerns.

接班计划
接班话题首先由丹·威廉姆斯主持，他将其描述为一个令人振奋的话题，涉及“我们最终走向死亡”，并开玩笑说如果话题太沉重，他可以改讲链接标签。更认真地说，他指出人们确实担心如果托瓦兹发生意外而没有指定继任者会产生什么后果，因此希望讨论一种可能的解决方案。

The details of this discussion will mostly be left out; it is sufficient to say that there was not a lot of disagreement in the room. There were two noteworthy outcomes at the end.

讨论的具体细节大部分未被公开；足够说明的是，现场几乎没有争议。最终有两个值得注意的结果。

The first is that some provisions for disaster have been made, in that there