In free software distribution, we have "leaders" and "maintainers". Maintainers are volunteers which are keeping up to date just few software packages. Leaders

In free software distribution, we have "leaders" and "maintainers". Maintainers are volunteers which are keeping up to date just few software packages. Leaders are choosing a general direction of a distro. IMHO, something similar can be applied to science. Leaders can chose a general direction of a collection of papers, while maintainers will work on small areas, keeping them consistent and up to date with new research. For example: - LIGO/VIRGO discovery of gravitational waves means that the speed of light in vacuum is not constant. It's constant in "steady" vacuum only. - Discovery of Higgs boson means that vacuum is not an empty space, because Higgs field is present everywhere. These recent discoveries significantly changes the field of science, so a bunch of classic paper must be updated or discarded in favor of new ones.