Also, the truth of the majority of most FOSS projects is that the lion's share of the work is done by a minority of the contributors. Extremely true--and I'd g

Also, the truth of the majority of most FOSS projects is that the lion's share of the work is done by a minority of the contributors. Extremely true--and I'd go further on this and say that the lion's share of the work is often done in the minority of the time spent by those minority of contributors. That is, some of the most useful improvements are also the ones that take a surprisingly small amount of time to implement; the bottleneck for many of the most useful changes is not coding time, but good ideas to implement. There's always a bunch of hard, complex projects that are lying around, but what is always in short supply are the easy, simple projects whose hardest part is coming up with the idea/algorithm/concept for it in the first place. Of course, the other bottleneck for "short and simple" changes is convincing a developer to do it... or even convincing oneself to do it.