Re: Replacing Link trailers

[Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>]

Hi,

On 16-Oct-25 12:16 PM, Simona Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 at 00:22, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:01:38 +0200
>> Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>>
>>> So yeah, circling back to "benevolent" -- for me, this has definitely
>>> broken the "benevolent" part and a lot of trust. But that's fine, I can
>>> also do a job that heavily resolves around following a manager's
>>> arbitrary whims. But my heart won't be in it.
>>
>> Yes it does appear that we all have extra work to do because one person
>> doesn't like the current method. I don't think I saw anyone else complain
>> about the "useless" link either. Maybe I missed it. But currently it's all
>> been "Alright, fine, I'll work around this" and not one "Oh Great! This is
>> most definitely helpful!", like what happened when Linus created "git".
>>
>> I'm currently looking for someone to help me with my maintainership. Masami
>> came on board, but what happened was that he basically maintains all things
>> "probe" related and I do everything else. That split still takes up more
>> time than we have designated.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I've had many people say to me "I don't ever want to be a
>> top level maintainer" and "better you than me", which makes it very
>> difficult to find a helper. This discussion isn't helping with that
>> perspective either.
> 
> +1 on both Steve's observation and Johannes' entire mail.

+1 from me on both too.

Or as Geert put it: "So, can we please get our Link:-tags back, and get back
to real work (or vacation ;-)?"

Regards,

Hans