A regular feature of the Kernel Maintainers Summit is a session where Linus
Torvalds discusses the problems that he has been encountering. In recent
years, though, there have been relatively few of those problems, so this
year he turned things around a bit by asking
the community what problems it was seeing instead. He then addressed
them at the Summit in a session covering aspects of the development
community, including feedback to maintainers, diversity (or the
lack thereof), and more.

Source: LWN.net – [$] A discussion on kernel-maintainer pain points