I said it elsewhere and I'll say it here again, get rid of the damn mailing lists, and embrace rust + it's tooling. The Linux kernel dev experience is horrendous. Go tell a freshly minted github user how to contribute to the kernel using a mailing list and see the interest vanish. Tell a budding kernel developer to follow a 10 minute article on how to build the kernel and another 10 minute article on how to test it. I'm sure that'll keep the majority willing to contribute.

The kernel needs new blood, but it won't get that many if maintainers hang on to development practices and tools from the last century.

P.s I'm grateful for maintainers and contributors, but help us help you.

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