Linux model prone to burnout?
Linux model prone to burnout?
Posted Sep 15, 2025 7:56 UTC (Mon) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)Parent article: Creating a healthy kernel subsystem community
Thinking about that whole bus factor issue, it seems to me that the Linux model with the hierarchy of individuals responsible for the entire thing, a whole subsystem, a whole part of a subsystem,... is inherently prone to problems like burnout since everything relies on individuals instead of teams that can take the load off any given individual depending on their need to recover for a while.
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