Isn't this somehow a modern, self-inflicted disease? FOSS used to be developed to very high standards by individuals, without relying on expensive CI pipelines.
I'm using "infrastructure" in the same sense that the author described:
> ... as infrastructure -- triage and fix bugs from the backlog, optimize performance, increase security and reliability, pay down tech debt, simplify and automate ongoing maintenance
And CI pipelines don't need to be particularly expensive, and they're pretty critical really if you're building "infrastructure" in that sense. Otherwise you're just shipping code off to your customers to be the CI pipeline.
