I totally agree this is a very balanced review of the affair.
The fact that "kernel maintainers ... are overworked and do not have the time to properly review every patch that passes through their hands" is not a situation created by the group of researchers.
If the Linux kernel is so crucial to the real world industry, and the kernel team is so distressed at their work, this is a problem need to be seriously addressed. Proactively punish the whole UMN does nothing to address the real issue here.
If the team is so distressed at this tremendously important work and they constantly feel they are on the edge of collapsing, may be you really really really should ask for outside help and even demand more contributions from the big techs.
Nobody should overwork, especially those work on something so crucial to the whole industry.
Edit: I just read a line from the Rust Foundation page [1]: "Good software is built by happy, well-supported people."
1. https://foundation.rust-lang.org/
The fact that "kernel maintainers ... are overworked and do not have the time to properly review every patch that passes through their hands" is not a situation created by the group of researchers.
If the Linux kernel is so crucial to the real world industry, and the kernel team is so distressed at their work, this is a problem need to be seriously addressed. Proactively punish the whole UMN does nothing to address the real issue here.
If the team is so distressed at this tremendously important work and they constantly feel they are on the edge of collapsing, may be you really really really should ask for outside help and even demand more contributions from the big techs.
Nobody should overwork, especially those work on something so crucial to the whole industry.
Edit: I just read a line from the Rust Foundation page [1]: "Good software is built by happy, well-supported people."
1. https://foundation.rust-lang.org/