One of my goals doing maintenance the past half year was trying to get through a lot of the pull request backlog. Managed to get through a good chunk of it, but the rest seems to require increasingly more effort.
The project needs to find a better way to reward and surface good and dedicated reviewers. Review work is tedious, often boring, and not something that can be easily measured. This makes it hard to both surface to the public and for developers to build their prestige around it.
I am curious how I can improve my leadership in this respect. I found the pull request review club not effective in this regard. The amount of effort spent on preparing it usually did not pay off. We need to find some way to better reward review.