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Maintainers don't need to be welcomed, they are already there! But it's true that maintainers need to do real work and expend real effort if they want to ensure

• malvosenior 8y ago
  > Maintainers don't need to be welcomed, they are already there! They are already there, and since they did all of the hard work of getting there and people are using their software for free, they should be treated with the utmost respect. People shouldn't come into their "homes" and start making demands. Also, how do you think we get more maintainers? I assure you it's not by abusing the ones we have. > But it's true that maintainers need to do real work and expend real effort if they want to ensure their project is welcoming to newcomers. If you want to start a project and make this a goal, more power to you. There is a large portion of devs that see this as a non-goal (SQLite doesn't have "newcomer" contributors for instance), and that's totally within their rights and something that should be respected.