Hello @skyzyx and @mblaney,
Merging even obvious pull requests has become much too slow in this SimplePie repo (e.g. #878 (comment))
Meanwhile, there seems to be some contributors doing a good job, but without enough rights.

So to ensure continued development, motivation, reward contributors, and reduce the bus factor, please consider granting more rights to top contributors such as @jtojnar , @Art4 (if they are willing).

I can only see two people on https://github.com/orgs/simplepie/people - that is not enough.
I cannot see the roles, but there should be more owners / admins.