Keynote: Maintaining the Maintainers

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Maintainers report widespread burnout, a clear gap between contributor and maintainer roles, and concrete fixes that helped: Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals, a release engineering subproject, SIG Release processes and the CNCF tag contributor strategy that build tooling and handoffs but did not eliminate the release team. Concrete actions: stop signing up for things, invest in onboarding artifacts, document it or record a demo, delegate repetitive ops. Pandemic disruption spans ~two years and one person mentions doing six or seven talks in a week as an example of overload.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:25Release Engineering
3. 2:12Slow down. It's not your fault
4. 3:01Burnout
5. 5:17Stop signing up for things
6. 7:07Scale yourself

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