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@glyph @luis_in_brief @diazona @eb Yes, e.g., what if the current maintainer is genuinely unavailable/uninterested? As may well have happened with xz even with a job offer.

Funding a new maintainer is by itself defensible, but doing so will drastically change both the pressure on the current maintainer and the choice of who becomes maintainer (e.g. there's now a bias in favor of those who have US work authorization).

I'm curious if either Tidelift or the commercial distros have norms for this.