"My advice for developers has been to write comments before writing the code." Haha yeah, however in our experience thus far, quite a number of developers really only explain their intentions verbally so nothing ever makes it into the codebase unfortunately. And after a few months, they themselves may not understand why the code was written in a particular manner.

"The issue tho is that most open source code is technical code and code that relies on it serves a business function." Wow yeah never thought about it in that way before!