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by a-dub 1895 days ago
> But we've moved on from that time. It feels like the height of arrogance and gatekeeping to look down on someone who just wants to be able to italicize or bold some text in their emails sometimes.

does rich email formatting still make a mess on mailing lists? most clients send a plaintext part, sure, but is it well formatted?

i think it's okay for a team to have customs, and even engage in a little gatekeeping. it's not that much to ask considering how much effort goes in from long time contributors.

last i heard github was adding features to actually make it harder to submit drive by PRs because exhausted maintainers were finding themselves further exhausted by uninvested contributors making superfluous contributions. (for events or name recognition or whatever)

that said, disrespect is never a good thing.

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> last i heard github was adding features to actually make it harder to submit drive by PRs because exhausted maintainers were finding themselves further exhausted by uninvested contributors making superfluous contributions.

Which features?

good question what, if anything, they actually added... but search hn history for "hacktoberfest" for background...