[fourthark]

And they rejected a couple of his pull requests and implemented similar features themselves.

I don't think it's necessarily the responsibility of a project to validate its users. But there are examples like Node where the emphasis is on retaining and involving contributors.

https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/healthy-open-sourc...

I'm not sure it fits everywhere but based on later posts, it seems to be working for them.

[girvo]

Though Node is run that way mainly because the pressure of io.js — specifically forked because Node wasn’t being run in a collaborative manner. Was an interesting time, with an excellent outcome.