[yjftsjthsd-h]

> Fair point, but most of us on the team don't really have much time to spare to work on the project at all, let alone for mentorship, unfortunately.

It's legitimate, of course (if you don't have time you don't have time), but that would make me worry about the project's future.

[kelnos]

That's pretty much been the status quo for us for 20+ years now, and yet we're still chugging along, making regular major releases every 2 years, with bugfix releases periodically in between. I worked on it from 2004 to 2009, took a long break, and got involved again about a year and a half ago. The cast of characters (aside from the original project creator) have all changed, but there's still enough interest to keep things going.

And sure, maybe that will change someday, and interest will fade, and the project will end up unmaintained. That'd be a shame, but that's fine. Doesn't invalidate or make useless what we're doing now, and doesn't mean our users need to make any big plans to change their workflows.

[E39M5S62]

I don't often get the chance to talk to people that work on software I've used every day for years and years - so thank you for all of your work on XFCE. It's a fantastic project that 'just works'.

[mnau]

Most projects run on 1-2 devs. That is the situation for top 1000 projects in your ecosystem (npm, nuget, pypy). Roughly half will be this way.

Take random project and go to github insights/contributions tab to see for yourself.