I'm fascinated to learn that hard disk repair services will replace individual components in disks for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iiEKZhDapo
Needing a clean room is a pretty major hurdle to doing the maintenance yourself.
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@esvrld@octodon.social Zing! 😆
Now you mention it, I'd be really interested to see data on how many times maintenance has changed hands. Adding a maintainer is great, repeatedly changing can indicate abandonware.
Red Hat/Fedora is the biggest supporter of https://x.org/, and they expect it to move to maintenance-only soon: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Maintenance-Mode-Quickly
On the value of learning what you don't know:
https://nealford.com/memeagora/2015/09/08/knowledge-breadth-versus-depth.html (increase breadth, but low knowledge maintenance)