A few weeks ago I started a simple open source project that got a little bit of traction over here in HN. Since then I've had 4-5 active volunteers contributing

A few weeks ago I started a simple open source project that got a little bit of traction over here in HN. Since then I've had 4-5 active volunteers contributing to the project and I'm ever so thankful for them. But I've got to admit, even 4-5 active volunteers is quite taxing on my time: I need to spend a fair bit of time reviewing stuff, triaging issues, updating the README or the code to be more newcomer friendly and what not. I can't even imagine that in a 1000x scale, which is what Linus has done (I know that he has people working under him taking care of certain sections of the kernel, but it's still incredible how he has managed so many people, companies and organizations for so long so efficiently). Linux will always be one of the greatest man-made efforts ever.