Hi Cart, have you considered giving a presentation or writing an article about how you successfully manage the project? I remember when you first publicly released bevy and the onslaught of support you received. I'd be curious how you were able to successfully manage that as it's clear you've done that well as Bevy continues to grow at an incredible pace.
I'd consider doing that once I feel like I've actually "solved" this problem. Adjusting to this scale of community development has been a slow and sometimes painful process. I started with a "benevolent dictator for as long as I can manage it" model and we have slowly been transitioning into a more distributed decision making process where more people are reviewing code and more people have merge rights. Currently these merge rights are very "scoped" and I am still making basically every "controversial" call when it comes to code and api design. This means that I am a bottleneck, and the pressure to resolve this increases as the community grows. I have "big plans" here that involve continuing to expand the scope of the other maintainers (Francois and Alice), pulling in even more maintainers, and empowering "working groups" to make decisions more autonomously. Expect to see significant progress here in the very near future.
