The crazy part is that this is absolutely a solved problem.<p>I&#x27;m not sure if everyone misses this due to Linus-worship, holding him up as an example of how to run an OSS project (which... he isn&#x27;t a good one), but most of the engineers flailing around here work with PMs in their day job, whose job it is to do what isn&#x27;t getting done here.<p>I&#x27;d love to see everyone:<p>(1) Buy their nearest PM an appreciative beer, thanking them for keeping this off you at your day job.<p>(2) Recruit somebody with this experience to your project. It&#x27;s unreasonable to expect that OSS is a developer-only world, when closed-source software doesn&#x27;t function that way. Changing the culture of OSS to involve PMs when projects hit a significant size and respect their contributions would be excellent.