Whereas I just left Debian-based distros because I'm hitting that exact problem with backported patches not arriving in any reasonable length of time in many packages. There seems to be a real manpower problem over at Debian in terms of maintainers.
I definitely feel like I'm hearing this about debian and it manifests worry, because I sense if we don't consolidate so many parallel oss volunteer based projects soon, we could lose a lot of valuable work to rot and collapse. but who would even undertake that survey and proposal process.
I do wish our line of work would formalize into an international guilds so apprentices help learn to maintain this stuff on their way to becoming "journeymen", somehow.
