Meet the Maintainers BoF
summary
The BoF lists concrete maintenance changes and pain points: GitHub review delays with roughly 800 open PRs, a new 4-eyes principle to require cross-organization reviews, and recurring G identity issues that block commits until authors fix email/commit metadata. CI failures and long, untriaged large drivers slow progress; a Thursday dev meeting does triage and an escalation path exists but backlog still grows. Suggestions include a tips/FAQ, maintainer-file notifications, per-area round‑robin maintainers, and clearer LTS rules for versioning and external module alignment.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:45Zephyr maintenance challenges
- 6:49Community growth perspectives
- 9:38Big changes and reviews
- 11:25Security and vetting
- 20:32LTS and release feedback
- 23:59Stalled PRs and drop-off
- 31:48PR review timelines
- 37:21Maintainer burden and education
- 41:14Documentation improvements
- 45:49Q&A
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