Dead projects typically have a bus-factor of 1, where committers have all gotten into the habit of waiting for one another to come along for the ride. It's true that somebody has to drive the bus, but the driver should rotate (and is named RM). The only person allowed to set a schedule for a healthy project is an RM, everyone else is only allowed to block progress by using their voting rights. This bs we tell each other about things we all plan to do "soon" needs to come to a close if we're ever going to be able to handle the support load httpd may be asking us to take on.
