Daniel F. Kudwien wrote
The more Drupal's user-base and our community grows the more I think we need a "proper" process of dealing with this issue.
Well, what I'd actually like to become is a professional (i.e. paid) contrib. maintainer. I really enjoy it, but I do have to worry about a roof over my head and food in my stomach. If there was some way to fund people to do this, I think everyone would benefit. Those people could concentrate on those modules that are most used (assuming our stats are close to correct) and could be educated early in a release cycle so that those popular modules follow new Drupal releases closely. That still leaves plenty of modules for those who like to tinker. And, of course, I'd like to see some basic funding for the core maintainers as well. So how do we raise this money? Nancy