Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Maintainer burnout

Christian Brauner
2023-08-22T10:10:32Z

> 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).