"Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers

We need to go back to larger libraries maintained collaboratively by a community of maintainers. All these solo maintainers with tiny-but-critical libraries are unsustainable.

It's a romantic ideal, it worked while OSS was on the margins, but it's impractical in real life in the mainstream.

As a developer using a library, you don't want a single "solo maintainer" dependency. In the best days, you are absorbing code changes without peer review. On a bad day, the maintainer can go rogue, have health issues, have credentials stolen...

Let's go back to larger "standard libraries" and frameworks, team maintained. Each part of them can be small, but the umbrella effort is larger, involves more people, can have 'peer review' rules and it's a more reasonable target for corp funding.