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by awill88
1553 days ago
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I wonder if there could be a way to just turn off issues and only accept PRs. Contribution-driven feature requests. That would be a boundary that I think would protect the maintainer from the potential outcome that the article about boundaries does absolutely nothing. Open is open, people are relentless and unforgiving, that’s why I don’t have the stomach for it. But if I see something I’d like to do with a project, I will take a whack at implementing it and giving back. I can imagine gaining a distaste for seeing companies benefit without being rewarded in return. With that, perhaps it’s time to seek out other maintainers? If we’re talking open source here, shouldn’t successful projects become co-owned (ie maintained) by the community? While a single maintainer who creates a successful open sourced software certainly earns the discretion to choose to share their invention(s) or not, holding tightly onto the projects as opposed to donating them seems as unproductive as a random person demanding features. But I am not the maintainer so I don’t mean to convey apathy, my completely naive, lizard brain would just want to troll the worst of them with “open a PR and we’ll talk” |
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That would create the problem, that people won't able to ask if a feature is desired by the maintainer. New contributors would spend time on a PR and then learn that the original developer considers that feature to be out of scope and therefore the development effort would be wasted.
I understand your wish for removing the issue tab. But there is a downside to it.