For very popular community projects, you can indeed solve the problems by throwing some manpower at it. However, there's this uncanny valley of somewhat popula

For very popular community projects, you can indeed solve the problems by throwing some manpower at it. However, there's this uncanny valley of somewhat popular, mostly solo maintainer projects where you get a steady stream of tickets (say one or two a week) yet there's no community to speak of, so everything falls onto you. It gets pretty annoying when you have a couple of these uncanny valley projects.