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> why don't you stop maintaining those projects if you can't do it properly? Well, perhaps they are doing it properly, and everyone else has the wrong definiti
by gnubison 5y ago
> why don't you stop maintaining those projects if you can't do it properly?
Well, perhaps they are doing it properly, and everyone else has the wrong definition of “proper”. Good stewardship does not mean accepting every patch and every new feature.
- remram 5y agoBy "improperly" I don't mean a disagreement on the project's direction; apologies if that wasn't clear. I mean using things like stalebot, shutting down discussions and increasing the demand on other people's time in your community just because you personally don't have the time to keep up. If you have reviewed a patch and you don't think it's the way to go, or you don't think it can be maintained going forward, that's fine. If you set up stalebot to close and lock merge requests because you don't have time to review, that's something else.