[ploxiln]

> There's 843 pull requests at this time, and I just looked and over 50 are from just the last month

That's kinda overwhelming though ... imagine that if the maintainer pops up somewhere, suddenly 100 motivated people may chime in "hey please review this important pull request that's been sitting over here for a while".

There are some kinds of open source projects that are prone to this ... some are really not so bad to maintain if you have the right kind of discipline, because they converge on a stable set of functionality and platform compatibility evolves slowly, but some just naturally have endless room for variations and special cases, and as users increase, PRs increase linearly (instead of sub-linearly as you'd hope). I'm thinking in particular of https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy (of which I contributed to an older fork)

[kjaftaedi]

youtube-dl relies on up-to-date definitions of sites in order to download the content.

When a webpage changes layout, youtube-dl needs updated as well.

We're talking mostly about a list of site definitions more than we are core development.