I dunno, I've seen new team members jump onto projects and thrive where most other members have a decade or two of experience. Once you've been around the bloc

I dunno, I've seen new team members jump onto projects and thrive where most other members have a decade or two of experience. Once you've been around the block dealing with large and complex codebases, picking up a new one gets easier, so I'm not at all worried about the SQLite bus factor. I agree that much larger projects like Linux can have much larger communities to draw leadership from, but I think SQLite is fine. Once upon a time I wanted to make a contribution to SQLite, and I tried to negotiate making it, but it was quite an uphill battle. On the other hand, I found the codebase itself quite approachable.