It usually happens after a series of poor life choices lead the developer down a path of financial destitution. They spend their personal time curating PRs to f

It usually happens after a series of poor life choices lead the developer down a path of financial destitution. They spend their personal time curating PRs to fix typos or expand their CI matrix to support N x M combinations of runtimes and cpu archs. Then one day they lose their day job, realize they have no savings, and that none of their FOSS contributions will help pay their rent.