Another Linux kernel developer steps back from some duties due to overload
Arm's Lorenzo Stoakes isn't quitting Linux kernel development, though he's stepping back from some of the patch-review work he used to handle.
Key points
- It’s crazy." On Red Hat's model of offering 10 years of support for products with a given version of the kernel: "Debian does it right.
- All of the maintainers are burnt out, and we have been for ten years." Kroah-Hartman also said: "I want to go down to two Long Term Support releases – four, maximum.
- "And yeah, AI is part of the reason; in general, it's gone from 'once a week' to 'daily' to 'half of what I see in review'.
Earlier this week he posted an email to the Linux kernel mailing list to say that he was planning to drop some of his workload.
He explained: "Given the current throughput in the kernel resulting from AI-generated series, I unfortunately lack the bandwidth to generally be able to offer review except in those areas I maintain.
Additional details
- Stoakes is a principal software engineer at Arm and he's a busy chap.
- I've argued for years that the RHEL and SLES model is broken.
- That's why I don't work for SUSE any more." ®.
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