why don't they leverage ai for maintaining packages?
The main problems seem to be that it takes a long time to build all combinations of USE flags and that users complain that volunteers are not working fast enough, causing annoyance of the maintainers. Can you explain how AI would help here?
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy
Most ai wouldn't know how to write a proper ebuild to save their lives.
The main problems seem to be that it takes a long time to build all combinations of USE flags and that users complain that volunteers are not working fast enough, causing annoyance of the maintainers. Can you explain how AI would help here?