44% of active open source projects have only one maintainer. Out of all maintainers, 60% would describe themselves as unpaid hobbyist. They already are BDFL fo

44% of active open source projects have only one maintainer. Out of all maintainers, 60% would describe themselves as unpaid hobbyist. They already are BDFL for themselves or one other person. The problem is a chronic deficiency of maintainers, which is at the root of this attack. Your comment implies there is a wide pool of peoplecwho want to do that, along with mythical "someone". Here is a little story: There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done. - Charles R. Swindoll