That's the scary thing. How many real, core contributors does even something like the Linux kernel have? People who have actually written more than a couple patches that landed and stayed in the kernel. I'd be astounded if it's much more than a hundred.
Most open-source projects have one to maybe five real contributors, outside the drive-by pull requests to fix some bug.
Most open-source projects have one to maybe five real contributors, outside the drive-by pull requests to fix some bug.