On Wed, 17 Jun 2026, Carsten Strotmann wrote:

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_Someone_ has to handle the reports and patches. And since nobody is 
doing that the code is going to GitHub, where it can continue to "just 
be left" or whatever, without racking up CVEs for the Linux kernel and 
leading to maintainer burn out :/

That's a good point. The large influx of reports is a problem, and burn 
out of maintainers is a too high cost.

Carsten, if, as a maintainer, you want to avoid burnout then

1) don't promise what you can't deliver (that is, decline sponsorship)

2) delegate (that is, leverage AI as an ally not as a lame excuse)

So the question remains: what is it which _can_ be delivered by and for 
the "community" (by which I mean, that group of people which includes 
actual end users -- not merely paying customers and sponsored developers).

This question has precious little to do with burnout, but it's the 
question we need to address.