Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] [3/4] Elevate handling of regressions that made it to releases deemed for end users

Jiri Kosina
2024-06-13T11:39:04Z

On Thu, 13 Jun 2024, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

> I don't think piling pressure will help. What could help is to reduce
> pressure on already overloaded maintainers, to give them more time to
> handle regressions. There have been multiple discussions about
> co-maintainance models over the past few years, and some subsystems are
> (slowly) moving forward. I would be more interested in participating in
> that effort.

Fully agreed. That's exactly why a few days ago I proposed the topic about
exploring the options of making the merge tree more deep (by delegating
more and making the co-maintainership model more prominent), as that in my
view is the only available solution to the current maintainer pressure
problem.

> It otherwise feels like we would just add pressure on an already
> overloaded system, without caring that the system has no reasonable way
> to absorb that pressure.

100% agreed as well.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs