[jeff-davis]

I suggest cultivating a sense of shared ownership. The author is trying to do that, which is great, but it seems like it's not there yet.

That's true of open source as well as proprietary development. Do you want other engineers to constantly contact you because you're "the $feature guy"? Or customers to do so?

No, you want a process and a team/community.

[mplanchard]

To be fair, this is really hard. Even finding other people willing to review PRs is difficult, much less people willing to spend the time understanding the entire codebase and being able to contribute to it in a meaningful way.