Agreed!
I wonder how we, as a group, feel about relaxing some of the dev and review procedures. In the late 2010s, it was certainly necessary to tighten down procedures because of code quality problems and insufficient testing of PRs. (I remember 2015-2016 era SC…) But I also feel like the move to “professionalize” SC dev ended up causing a number of contributors to drop out, and we’re now feeling the pinch from that. It is, after all, a volunteer effort; I felt that there may have been some misunderstanding in the early 2020s about what volunteers are.
Since the only SC release in the last year(?) fixed one bug for one OS (IIRC), it seems pretty obvious that we need to do something concrete to encourage participation. Simplifying procedures and lowering the entry barrier somewhat could help (and it might bring it more within reach for me to be more involved again, and I’d hope for others as well).
hjh