> As an outsider looking in, it seems that the kernel needs a lot more boots on the ground focusing on maintenance. Following kernel development a decade ago,

> As an outsider looking in, it seems that the kernel needs a lot more boots on the ground focusing on maintenance. Following kernel development a decade ago, that was exactly my opinion as well. Maintenance of older, creakier stuff gets little attention. Adding shiny new buggy features was all the rage. Code and architecture review was spotty at best, and a lot of shiny new things caused damage to old things, but no one cared because the new things were shiny.