>Telling them “no” isn’t going to make them focus instead on the project leadership’s other priorities like it would in a corporate team. No one is asking them

>Telling them “no” isn’t going to make them focus instead on the project leadership’s other priorities like it would in a corporate team. No one is asking them to. An open source project is not a corporation, it has no shareholders who require growth at all costs. So someone doesn't contribute to the project, if there's enough other contributors to keep it healthy then who care? No need to try and get every single potential contributor to contribute code to the project.