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Not About Burnout
- Cult of Busy
- known the progression and early signs
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss: „What part of „... for life“ don't you
Maintainers Don't Scale LCA 2017, Hobart Daniel Vetter @danvet 1 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Maintainers Don't Scale LCA 2017, Hobart Daniel Vetter @danvet 1 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Maintainers Don't Scale LCA 2017, Hobart Daniel Vetter @danvet 1 Not About Burnout Cult of Busy known the progression and early signs Jacob Kaplan-Moss: What part of ... for life don't you understand? 2 Kernel
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Kernel Merge Process
- git send-email + git apply-mbox
- 80% of patches applied by maintainers
- remaining 20% directly applied
- pull requests up the hierarchy
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New Model
- all regular contributors have commit rights
- group of maintainers for coordination
- Emily Dunham „Life is better with Rust's community
automation“
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Before the Rant, Some Good Stuff
- git
- commit messages
- bisecting
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boutique trees
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… and bus factors
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checks and balances
(lack thereof)
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Peer-Reviewed Maintainer's Patches Intel GFX 97% graphics core 95% GFX overall 75% everything else 25%
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no anynomous feedback
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Code of Conflict
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revolutions
(not so pretty)
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mesh vs. hierarchy
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downsides of fixed roles
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a maintainer's manifest
(towards)
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it's about the people
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recognize your power
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accept your limits
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be a steward, not a lord
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