I can feel that I'm somehow "back" with actual focus into kernel for the first time this year.

And I only noticed it now when looking back. During the course of the Spring there was a period when the shit happening around was so crazy that it really put some weight on my mental capacities at least.

I think it was a smart decision to remove "Assisted-by" tag because it actually encourages for patch spamming, and everyone in the field knows this. We know how to dig out the dirt ourselves and removal of that tag actually underlines the responsibility of an invidiual contributor more than anything else.