There is a lot of stuff where if no one puts there hand up to improve it will just languish because no one really encounters it in a way that motivates them to

There is a lot of stuff where if no one puts there hand up to improve it will just languish because no one really encounters it in a way that motivates them to patch it for their own needs. So a lot of documentation stuff that would require a lot of time to fix up. A good example I guess was PHP6, without reading to much in it it seems that making all the string functions UTF8(16) compatible was one of the very time consuming tasks that didn't have a lot of momentum behind it.