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Personally, I'd love to have more people working on
packaging (and
most importantly keeping up-to-date) Rust crates / apps but
I think
this is not so realistic :)
Growth in the numbers of users of open source software.has
outpaced
the numbers working on development, documentation, and
packaging.
I suspect many users are blindly following recipes found on
the internet
or using code written but someone who is no longer with the
organisation.
In economics this falls under the class of "free-rider"
problems where
people want public services but aren't willing to fund
them. Maybe
we need compulsory public service where youngsters are put
to work
in the conventional ways (military, hospitals, etc.) or
software projects.
During the Vietnam war I was in grad school in the US and
shared an
office with a couple veterans. One had worked on software
development
projects for the Air Force, who I assume were paying for
grad school.