Such a great project should have little trouble finding good devs. Imagine how many bright young hacker would kill to be an official contributor for BeautifulSo

Such a great project should have little trouble finding good devs. Imagine how many bright young hacker would kill to be an official contributor for BeautifulSoup. He could make an earnest attempt at finding other people to work on it and just do code reviews. Be a figure of advice and authority while doing no real work. That would be great IMHO.