Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Maintainer burnout

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Tue 22-08-23 12:10:26, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > I agree it is good to create positive incentives to provide good review.
> > But I believe what really makes people do good reviews is the sense of
> > common responsibility - you don't want buggy or misdesigned stuff to get
> > into the subsystem you work with because that's going to make life harder
> > for everybody including you in the future. And I understand the "tragedy of
> 
> Yes, this is a Herculean task and often just results in complaints that
> this is unnecessary non-technical pushback.
> 
> > commons" (IOW selfishness) works against this so incentives or
> > review-trading or other methods can help but ultimately it is IMHO about
> > making people understand and accept this shared responsibility...
> 
> Yes, but in order to encourage and incentivize shared responsibility the
> environment must feel sufficiently safe and have a good model of shared
> ownership. I think we often still have deficits in both (with
> differences between subsystems).

We are in full agreement here :).

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR