As someone who dug in far enough to write a simple plugin and then backed straight out again with no wish to go back I agree completely. If the plan is that LT should survive then I do not think simply open sourcing it is going to be enough; it needs the core team to do at least a final push on getting the fundamentals right, clarifying the internal api's, and documenting the way forward. Then maybe the community can take over. As it is, I'm not hopeful.