Jon Masters is a kernel hacker who’s been involved with Linux for over 22 years, and works on energy-efficient ARM servers.
Kernel development is pretty fast paced. In an average month, there are over 10,000 messages posted to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. As a result, it is easy to miss something important, and very easy to lose track of a bug needing attention, even if Thorsten Leemhuis is trying to keep track of regressions from one release to the next.