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[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You think there is a dearth of software engineers out there who can't spend time on something cool like a linux distro?

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well, yeah. Its pretty well established that there is fairly limited resources in open source. Loads of software engineers, very few contributors.

[–] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe because of projects that aren't interested in the opinions of distro maintainers, let alone individual contributors.

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

We can try to lower the barrier of entry. But nowadays open source maintainers have to actually limit controbutions due to a significant increase in supply chain attacks and generally untrustworthy code contributions.