Its unfortunate the question was flagged. For example lets say Don Armstrong from Debian retired; he's done an excellent job at a stressful job but all jobs ev

Its unfortunate the question was flagged. For example lets say Don Armstrong from Debian retired; he's done an excellent job at a stressful job but all jobs eventually end of course. You could look at the Debian wiki and say, OK we need to recruit qty one listmaster team member and you can use DDPO to look up a list of packages he maintained and someone needs to look after his former pkgs X Y and Z, etc. Debian carefully documents all delegations on the wiki and there's a bazillion automated tools to track. Presumably freebsd has something... something containing whatever Randi had ongoing responsibility over or was currently in process. That would certainly provide a measurable documentable level of damage (... X and Y will be delayed by an unknown period and Z is now not being looked at)