so... the tasks that burn out maintainers are the really boring tasks of maintaining the project, triaging bugs and doing releases. if end users want timely re

so... the tasks that burn out maintainers are the really boring tasks of maintaining the project, triaging bugs and doing releases. if end users want timely releases done correctly with secure release processes, signed packages and active security patching, they can pay for that as a service because it is work. if they want guarantees that their bugs and feature requests will see attention by core developers, they can pay for that as well. there is no guarantee that their paid-for patches will be merged into the main project, so their requests should make sense in the spirit of the project or they should be prepared to pay for maintenance of their custom trees.