Fostering project growth

[ehuss]

A common refrain is that there are teams that are understaffed or unsustainable. On the flip side, people often express interest in helping, but don't know how or where to get started, or are otherwise turned away.

Various approaches have been proposed and tried to make it easier for people to get involved. But we currently don't have a cohesive approach, and almost every team I know of struggles with this problem for various reasons.

Would it be possible to provide better on-ramps for the project in general and better support for existing maintainers to foster new maintainers and contributors? Is this something that is feasible to delegate to a group?