[tinus_hn]

I assume it starts with showing you’re up to it by putting in the work. You don’t need to be the release manager to contribute patches.

[codewiz]

But who will review your patches, if all the core devs have already moved on to Wayland?

[tinus_hn]

Who will give you maintainership?

[iampivot]

It's open source, you can provide your own distribution of it.