Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Maintainer burnout

Laurent Pinchart
2023-08-22T11:29:04Z

On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 12:10:26PM +0200, 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).

The DRM subsystem has done, as far as I can tell, an good job at
creating a safe and welcoming environment. Dave and Daniel both
indicated they don't have much new to say about the multi-committer
model, but maybe they could have lessons to offer on the human side ?
This is a topic that may be difficult to discuss publicly though, as it
often touches personal stories of abusive behaviour patterns noticed
through various communities.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart