While each individual project may have a core group of committers, are they the same people each time? This conclusion was not clear to me from the article, tho

While each individual project may have a core group of committers, are they the same people each time? This conclusion was not clear to me from the article, though the Hacker News title implies it. If that is the case, it goes against my experience with open-source. True, individual projects have core committers who drive the project forward - but the ecosystem that springs up around a project doesn't typically derive entirely from this core subset. NPM is likely the best example with 350,000 packages existing on the platform alone with the distribution of developers to packages being fairly uniform (reference: https://github.com/substack/npmtop/blob/master/README.markdown https://github.com/substack/npmtop/blob/master/README.markdo... - mind that the numbers are from 2011, but even back then it was highly uniform).