Maintainers Don't Scale
Here'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/questions.It would bring a lot more attention to whats going on and let the community start policing bad behavior by maintainers.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've already spent time designing the feature just right to convey what the contract of a PR is, so the linux kernel maintainers don't have to. The README would also have a giant "Contributors" heading outlining the guidelines that everyone can see.This is really a UI problem. But projects from Linux/Apache consistently refuse to acknowledge its importance.