I definitely feel like I'm hearing this about debian and it manifests worry, because I sense if we don't consolidate so many parallel oss volunteer based projec

I definitely feel like I'm hearing this about debian and it manifests worry, because I sense if we don't consolidate so many parallel oss volunteer based projects soon, we could lose a lot of valuable work to rot and collapse. but who would even undertake that survey and proposal process. I do wish our line of work would formalize into an international guilds so apprentices help learn to maintain this stuff on their way to becoming "journeymen", somehow.