What almost became the Great KDE Disaster of 2013

What almost became the Great KDE Disaster of 2013
http://jefferai.org/2013/03/24/too-perfect-a-mirror/

What usecases do github or http://bitbucket.org fail to support for kde’s 1500 open source projects?

With a described “8 kilometer long” list of todo’s, the concept of “interruption” and “neglect” fall into the same category as “normalcy” and “inevitable”.

kde’s not the only such shoemaker’s children.