That's why jdporter has -- for the past year or more -- been very nearly the "sole practicioner" of our recent improvements?

I have often thought about becoming a dev on/for PM but without mincing words: I have to work with painful legacy code all day already; I do *not* want to do more of it in my free time. The hurdle to contribution is too high for most of us today.

The expectation that for something new we'd be using git, writing tests for everything, being sane about MVC and REST, building on the progress and lessons of the Perl 5 renaissance, etc means much more talent would become available and ready to get with the program.