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Just uh.. build your own thing? Boom. Maintainer. Easy. Why would normal people even want to become an unpaid janitor for someone else's stuff?

• justin66 5mo ago
  > Why would normal people even want to become an unpaid janitor for someone else's stuff? Social validation. Or, to be slightly more generous, sort of a compulsory way to force someone more experienced to provide some mentorship, by compelling them to review your pull requests.
  • cestith 5mo ago
    That’s the point here, though. The maintainers of Ladybird don’t want to be compelled to mentor people making throwaway contributions without a commitment to the project. It’s pretty frustrating to try to mentor an absentee mentee who isn’t actually ready to learn from you.
    • justin66 5mo ago
      I expect they'd like to not mentor new people attempting to make real contributions as well. Sometimes you're just not in a position to do that.
      • cestith 5mo ago
        You make a strong point. Large parts of a decision like this have less to do with what you can get from the community, but what you have person-hours available to do with it. The core team is pretty small, and a lot of these automatically coded PRs are bound to be huge. They’re taking back their own time to focus on their own project.