When I read the title of this thread:

I thought that AWESOME, someone might pay for sufficient health insurance
that a maintainer could afford to pay a therapist to listen to their
problems.

So if there could be some sort of maintainer health therapy plan where
someone could blow their stack, anonymized, + a black couch to vent on + an
endless supply of tranks and ADD meds, and/or get a service animal like a
tribble for comfort, I´d be all for it. Sometimes I do think expressing
yourself in an uncivil way gets results that being nice doesn´t.

I am personally feeling rather battered and bruised lately, with the
onslaught of new embedded users of code I last worked on 7 years ago[1],
and how it has been mis-represented by marketing folk to them, only to find
out in test, it did not solve anything, configured how the marketing folk
mis-described it. I am deluged these past 6 months with seemingly endless
requests - from low level staff at some really big corps (I am not going to
name names) - to somehow jump in, for free, and fix it NOW, when the core
tech , required patient, incremental, development across the whole stack,
driver support especially, and years of testing.

If there is any one thing I wish the linux community could resume doing, is
to somehow cut the time from development to deployment down from the
present day 7-10 years to something reasonable, like 2. I remember when we
used to stress to external users the need to work with the community, in
embedded, back in the 00s, at least.

A means for the community to somehow represent itself better, and have
someone more tactful, equipped with a flame-proof suit, able to explain
issues of available funding and time consistently, and well, would be nice,
also.

[1] I am responding to my deluge as best I can.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tTYBPeaRdCO9AGTGQCpoiuLORQzN_bG3TAkEolJPh28/edit#heading=h.vbbnfu73wlpp

[2] This is as close as I have come to blowing my stack in a while. Is it a
safe space for it? :) I originally used another word in this email for
"marketing-folk", that I figure is now prohibited speech.