On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 4:58 PM James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-11-23 at 15:19 +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 11:36 PM James Bottomley > > <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [cut] > > > > Maintainers routinely review 1-line trivial patches, not to mention > > internal API changes, etc. > > We're also complaining about the inability to recruit maintainers: > > https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/30/hard_to_find_linux_maintainers_says_torvalds/ > > And burn out: > > http://antirez.com/news/129 Right. > The whole crux of your argument seems to be maintainers' time isn't > important so we should accept all trivial patches ... I'm pushing back > on that assumption in two places, firstly the valulessness of the time > and secondly that all trivial patches are valuable. > > > If some company does not want to pay for that, that's fine, but they > > don't get to be maintainers and claim `Supported`. > > What I'm actually trying to articulate is a way of measuring value of > the patch vs cost ... it has nothing really to do with who foots the > actual bill. > > One thesis I'm actually starting to formulate is that this continual > devaluing of maintainers is why we have so much difficulty keeping and > recruiting them. Absolutely. This is just one of the factors involved, but a significant one IMV.
