[fluffything]

> and I'm sorry but a project being 'open source' doesn't mean that everyone can or should contribute, not all contributions are good or helpful and if you have a certain standard in mind for your software you have to filter contributions.

So if someone sends you a contribution that isn't good enough, you reject them with a "no", and that's it?

Sure, you can do that. A different project might expend some time teaching that contributor and being nice to them, until their PR can be merged. And then the contributor submits another one that's better, and then another one, and then before you realize it you have another full time maintainer that you can trust.

So when you say that if a contribution isn't good enough you reject it I say "Thank you", because that person will move on to a different open source project, which might be one of mine, and I'll be getting another contributor instead.

You might not think that the work required to attract a new full-time contributor is worth it. To me it is.