Scaling OSS projects is hard. Most of my projects get a bug report every few weeks, which is very doable.
I don't envy the projects that explode in popularity though. You end up with a ton of issues and PRs and risk burnout.
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Do any package managers use bittorrent? I associate bittorrent with distributing large files, but it seems like it would really help scaling.
Most traffic to package managers is from CI systems, which could instead run their own local seeding nodes.
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