On Wed, 21 Jun 2023, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > > Making the maintainer role more lucrative will provide a > > disincentive for more automation (with or without level 5 > > performance reviews) unless remuneration is tied to metrics that > > reflect maintainer effectiveness. > > I'm not sure I totally understand your point above. I do not think that > making the maintainer role more lucrative provides a disincentive for > more automation. You're right -- it's a moot point (whether paying people more will reward underperformers) since it all depends on the performance metric. I was assuming a metric that reflects my own bias.