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Then the thread feels a little tangential, because you don’t have to “drive a hard line”, to do that, you just draw it once (publish a no PR policy, don’t hos

by DANmode 6mo ago

Then the thread feels a little tangential, because you don’t have to “drive a hard line”, to do that, you just draw it once (publish a no PR policy, don’t host on GH, etc), and you shouldn’t be hearing from users.

seba_dos1 6mo ago
That's just one way to do it. Even if you let them send you PRs or whatever, you can still act on them or not depending on how they behave, your available resources, health, mood or just whim. You don't owe anyone anything and "creating a community around a project" is not a goal you have to be striving for regardless of whether you take contributions or provide some user support or not.
- DANmode 6mo ago
  > depending on how they behave So, reviewing them. Which takes time/focus.
  - seba_dos1 6mo ago
    So don't do it when you don't want to.
    - hdgvhicv 6mo ago
      I found some prs in one of my GitHub projects which were over 12 months old. I just hadn’t noticed.
      - DANmode 6mo ago
        For a lot of projects, that interval is probably fine! (I still get bug tracker emails for the kernel from before 2010!)