> otherwise you'll have to invest a ton of time into many different people and you don't have that kind of bandwidth. but who is investing this time and bandwi

> otherwise you'll have to invest a ton of time into many different people and you don't have that kind of bandwidth. but who is investing this time and bandwidth? It seems like this sort of governance model allows politics to replace egalitarianism or meritocracy. I could have become a Debian contributor/packager many times over, but it always seemed not worth it for a thankless job which is mostly dealing with bureaucracy and red tape instead of actually solving technical matters. (To be fair, I've since moved on to Funtoo, which, like Gentoo, is very egalitarian -- but requires a certain, rather high, level of technical interest and expertise which is its own filtering function. On the other hand, Debian's packaging policies are very strict, and many distributions have much less strict packaging policies.) How do the less-difficult distributions such as Arch or Alpine do it with less overhead (and is that better or worse?)