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Initially I liked the idea, but the more I think about it the more this feels like it just boils down to: only allow contributions from a list of trusted people
by dom96 8mo ago
Initially I liked the idea, but the more I think about it the more this feels like it just boils down to: only allow contributions from a list of trusted people.
- 3371 8mo agoWell a lot of useful things are not useful because they are innovative, but well designed an executed.
- rvz 8mo agoThis makes a lot more sense for large scale and high profile projects, and it eliminates low quality slop PRs by default with the contributors having to earn the trust of the core maintainers to contribute directly to the project.
- verdverm 8mo agoit also increases the barrier to new adopters why not use ai to help with the ai problem, why prefer this extra coordination effort and implementation?
- Rumple22Stilk 8mo agoThat's the whole point. There are many new adopters and few competent ones.
- verdverm 8mo agoI mean to well meaning contributors, I understand the goal of vouch, I think it goes too far and you'll turn off said well meaning contributors I certainly have dropped off when projects have burdensome rules, even before ai slop fest
- acedTrex 8mo agoThese projects would rather miss out on a few good people to stop the bad ones over the alternative.
- verdverm 8mo agoI think there are better alternatives, we'll let the market weed things out For example, I will keep making them spin wheels and burn tokens / money, a sort of honeypot, adversarial shadowban. This is even better for disincentivizing them. Will automate it if it ever gets bad
- tristan957 8mo agoThe barrier in the Ghostty project is to simply open a discussion. It's not really hard.
- verdverm 8mo agoWhat about fixing a typo in a comment? Do I have to start a discussion before I can submit a fix for a two char swap? Also, my statement was general, why are you making it about one?
- tristan957 8mo agoAs Mitchell said, the rules of engagement are defined per project. I'm giving you an example.
- ramses0 8mo agoIt's similar to old Usenet "killfiles" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file ...or spam "RBL" lists which were often shared. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_blocklist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_blocklist
- kjs3 8mo agoAnd...that's bad?
- freakynit 8mo agoNot until you are wrongly considered "untrusted".