Comment often heard: we've lost $person / we're missing people to maintain/lead/do $project. This is understandable, and to be expected in a large, mature project such as KDE.
However, in #kde and #kde-devel IRC channels we have new people almost daily trying to find some way to get involved with KDE. In an effort to bring the solution and the problem together, at Akademy we brainstormed and came up with the Mission forum [1]. What that forum needs is postings! When you as a devel are thinking about giving up maintainership, please write a "Maintainer Wanted" post. When fixing bugs, and seeing a valuable bit of code which needs porting, please write that up and put it on the forum. Of course we always need ideas for possible GSoC projects, and the forum is a good place to post and develop those ideas. Naturally they will eventually have to be moved to our GSoC docs, but they can be discussed and refined on the forum. Needed documentation, internationalization, translation, artwork, promo, and web work are also suitable. If you have written a "help wanted" blog or ML post in the past, dig it out and post it on the forum. I know devels often don't like forums, but guess who does like them? Beginners and people who are using search engines. We need these people to join our community and start helping out. That will happen when we ask in a public place, which is the forum. Valorie 1. https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=291
