As you may know, Toolchain is a Pants enterprise service provider founded 5 years ago by John Sirois and me. Unfortunately, it has become infeasible for Toolchain to continue to operate in the current fundraising and general business environment. As a result, over the next few weeks we will be winding down the company's operations. 5 of the 20 current Pants maintainers are Toolchain employees, so this may have a short-term impact on resources, such as Slack help and code review attention, available to the project. (Takes off Toolchain hat, puts on Pants Maintainer propeller beanie) Fortunately, the Pants community has built itself up so successfully over the past 3 years that this shouldn't impact the project's momentum: Since we launched Pants v2 in October 2020, the user base has grown steadily, and along with it the number of Contributors and Maintainers. Folks from a variety of companies and industries now form a formidable open-source development team committed to continuing this thrilling upward trajectory. In fact, think of this transition as an opportunity: this is your chance to become further involved with a robust and growing OSS project that prides itself on kindness just as much as on technical excellence. We value all manner of contributions: new feature implementations, bugfixes, documentation, blog posts, conference talks, anything that helps the project grow while improving its stability. Over the next few weeks all of the Pants Maintainers will work to ensure a seamless transition. John and I, and at least some of the other Toolchain folks, will remain closely involved with the project. And the entire community - Maintainers, Contributors and users is robust and growing and is fully capable of absorbing this change with minimal disruption. Thanks for being loyal Pants users. We're very excited to remain active members of the Pants community through this next phase and beyond! Please reach out on this thread or by DM if you have any questions or concerns. Benjy

As a followup, there may be a big silver lining here, in that we may have an opportunity to contribute some of our proprietary code to the open-source community, thus adding one or more excellent features to Pants.

Can you give more flavor on what you were thinking of. Is it more like 5 hours a month, or 20 hours a week?