Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Maintainer burnout

Jiri Kosina
2023-08-22T07:41:25Z

On Mon, 21 Aug 2023, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

> > It is not clear to me how to get honest answers without fear of
> > loosing an ability to work with that subsystems later.
>
> One straightforward (on paper) option is to guarantee anonymity. When I
> was in university, students were given the opportunity to provide
> feedback on teachers, and the feedback was aggregated into a report that
> didn't contain any personal information that could be used to identify
> the students.

I understand where you are coming from with this (my university did the
same :) ), but in my view this has a huge potential for not really
reflecting reality. Rationale being: the people who e.g. got their code
rejected will naturally tend to provide negative feedback, even if
rejecting the code was objectively the right thing to do.

And vice versa.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs