> Linux kernel maintainers might be not good as people managers, but it's also not their job It's absolutely part of their job. Maintaining a healthy pool of

> Linux kernel maintainers might be not good as people managers, but it's also not their job It's absolutely part of their job. Maintaining a healthy pool of contributors is in the job spec, and to do that you need a degree of people-managing skills - expressed either by tools or by the maintainer. Torvalds makes headlines when he flames, but he definitely always had a penchant for collaboration and delegation, or Linux would not have become what it did. He effectively encoded his philosophy in git, so now most of the people-management is done by tools, but it wasn't like this for a very long time.