yeah, and part of the reason it worked was that the xz-utils main maintainer was also particularly vulnerable to being pushed to the handover, and I wonder how much that search space could have been automated these days

you can automate almost anything if you don't care about the results

good point

which is, yeah, not to put too fine a point on it but i don't think there's any particularly usable data about that in the goop cauldron