Re: "Why I am retiring from contributing to FreeBSD"

i don't have all the facts and opinions from both sides on the topic of plausible misconduct of core@ but i would like to comment on another related topic to this discussion which is what is hurting the project in my opinion

in my opinion the project is affected by paralysis due to lack of contributors for a lack of better words, often times i see many useful patches sitting in review waiting to be approved or critical bugs in several important ports not being patched or some new ports just sitting for years

and the sad part is i have no idea how to properly help with this even though i want to

some might think that i can help with reviewing patches or patching those bugs sitting there or those ports waiting to be approved but the reality is i don't have the skills for that and even if i did i wouldn't be making much of a big impact by myself alone

and the sadder part is instead of seeing new contributors joining from time to time, i see many veteran contributors leaving from time to time and i have no clear idea as to why