Maintainers Don't Scale
Here&#x27;s an idea, somewhat tangential - modernize the freaking dev tools. It frustrates me that these projects still use mailing lists and have no sane UI to track issues, submit PRs like Github, or maybe a Gitter channel for ad-hoc chat&#x2F;questions.<p>It would bring a lot more attention to whats going on and let the community start policing bad behavior by maintainers.<p>He even mentions how contributors will often not modify their PRs according to maintainer and view code review as a rubber-stamp. I rarely see this happening on Github - because PRs are a product feature. They&#x27;ve already spent time designing the feature just right to convey what the contract of a PR is, so the linux kernel maintainers don&#x27;t have to. The README would also have a giant &quot;Contributors&quot; heading outlining the guidelines that everyone can see.<p>This is really a UI problem. But projects from Linux&#x2F;Apache consistently refuse to acknowledge its importance.