What issues exactly did you have with contributing? I found it very easy to contribute to alpine, I wrote an APKBUILD, created a pull request, someone reviewed my PR and pointed out an issue, I fixed it and my PR was merged. I can't think of a way that could be made any easier.

Could you describe what you found difficult? I'm pretty new to packaging on Alpine, but found it to be easy to get into, only requiring a bit more effort than the AUR.

Sounds like all the release engineering rigor of a 1 man, DIY hobby out for the path of least resistance.

One person trying to do too much is no bueno. It needs to be a team effort and consumers need to step-up to be occasional producers as well.

Counterpoint:

No system built by committee will ever be trivially reckonable/navigable by a single person. Therefore the only people who will derive benefit from it will mostly be committees/orgs.

When one builds for oneself, or a single person, one builds under a set of constraints that truly allow for peak accessibility.

You've only got 1 person to do the whole shebang. And if one person can do it, you're on a much better footing from which to then allow anyone to do it.

As someone in the midst of building out a lab, it's been humbling, and in a way invigorating to return to grappling with building cohesive, single operator systems.