Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Maintainer burnout

Linus Torvalds
2023-08-18T17:07:44Z

On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 at 17:10, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> I was wondering last time if we can do a run of short sessions
> where a few volunteers talk about their subsystems? Let's say
> 10min talking about
> - current process subsystem uses
> - "realities" / day to day challenges / problems
> - how the subsystem is evolving the process

I feel like we did exactly that a few years in a row, but it was
probably back before covid times, and probably when it was still
called the "kernel summit" rather than "maintainer summit".

At that point it was mainly just the GPU and ARM people who were doing it.

[ Goes back and looks at my old ksummit mails ]

Heh. It seems we did it enough that during the 2018 discussion, we had
Daniel Vetter say "We don't need another overview over group
maintainership". I think most of this was 2016/17 or so, and then by
2018 we had that "not again.." situation.

But I suspect that all predates the networking people starting to do
the group maintainership (I think you started doing pull requests in
2020?), so I guess you never saw any of that.

I do think the whole "how to spread the pain of being a maintainer" is
very much the point of the maintainer summit, though, so I do think we
should revisit.

Linus