Re: Replacing Link trailers

[Simona Vetter <simona.vetter@ffwll.ch>]

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.
-Sima
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Simona Vetter
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