What's a Maintainer Anyway?

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Most KDE projects lack a formal maintainer and frameworks explicitly remove maintainer entries from metadata files. One person usually ends up doing code, UI, CI/CD, packaging and support and hits burnout and bus-factor risk; roughly a third of contributors only have time for sleep. KDE distributes those roles across a council of elders, a sysadmin team, a bug squad, visual designers, translators, KDEV and distro packagers, which reduces single points of failure but creates fragmentation, review bottlenecks and ownership gaps.

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