I don't think that throwing a bunch of new people in a project will necessarily make dealing with the problem (code, doc, communication issues) less stressful for the maintainers involved.
Quite the opposite.
The only way you can make this be less stressful for the maintainers is for them to delegate it all to some corporation to handle and go shopping, but this effectively means they are no longer the maintainers of that project.
Surely there is the possibility that these million dollars are just donated to the maintainers as compensation for a prompt resolution, but I don't think that is so easy to pull off. CTO may have some staffing but paying large sums to external contractors on a short notice is not something easy to pull off in any large organization.
No. I think this whole line of reasoning doesn't resonate much with reality.
Quite the opposite.
The only way you can make this be less stressful for the maintainers is for them to delegate it all to some corporation to handle and go shopping, but this effectively means they are no longer the maintainers of that project.
Surely there is the possibility that these million dollars are just donated to the maintainers as compensation for a prompt resolution, but I don't think that is so easy to pull off. CTO may have some staffing but paying large sums to external contractors on a short notice is not something easy to pull off in any large organization.
No. I think this whole line of reasoning doesn't resonate much with reality.