I wonder if it's a reaction to some horror story they experienced. When they first started, they didn't have all that stuff. In fact, I remember them running a

I wonder if it's a reaction to some horror story they experienced. When they first started, they didn't have all that stuff. In fact, I remember them running around and hiring basically anyone with any role in the Linux/Debian space. For a period, I had quite a few conversations at LUGs where I was told "Oh, that guy you met last week? He's the <insert Debian package here>, Canonical just hired him...". I wonder if that original hiring spree (which was fishing heavily from academia, and seemed very informal) burned them so badly that they sat down and devised a process that is the exact opposite.