Re: Replacing Link trailers

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

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.

-- Steve