[kamilm]

While I understand the frustration caused by people not respecting maintainer's time, I don't understand the reluctance of looking for an additional maintainer to help curate the issues.

What's your take on this? Do you have any experience in this area?

[tuwtuwtuwtuw]

Finding good maintainers is a lot of work. People who are most eager to become maintainers often aren't good options. It's just as hiring a new employee, and do you want to go through that process and pain to make some guys and girls on the internet happy?

Just as an example, I tried to find a maintainer to take over an OSS project I worked on. A lot of people wanted to take over but didn't understand how to code. They just wanted to project manage, maybe for the sake of their CVs. There was 1 guy I really thought was good because he was helpful, making good PR and so on, then it turns out he is sending racist crap in private to members of the community.

Then there were people who wanted to take ownership so they could do something similar to "rewrite in rust".

[notriddle]

> I don't understand the reluctance of looking for an additional maintainer to help curate the issues.

You need to find someone who won't sneak a cryptominer or ransomeware in your library. That's hard.

[agilob]

If there was another maintainer willing to help they would open enough helpful PRs to get noticed and be granted a privileged status.

I review issues on openapi-generator and I can easily say 90% of them are result of user not reading documentation, unrelated shit like "how do I x in docker/gradle/maven". I think author here has strong points and I support him as a maintainer, but i would also be also annoyed as a user.

[rurban]

accepting only pull-requests and discussions is fine if the maintainer can live with it. apparently the js ecosystem is a shithole.

I couldn't, as a prefer silly bug reports over none. but I have disabled many issues on forks. issues should go upstream.

[bob1029]

> apparently the js ecosystem is a shithole.

The latest standards-compliant JS is really nice to work with (i.e. vanilla). You don't need an "ecosystem".

[vips7L]

Too bad 50% of my users are still running internet explorer.

[jjgreen]

The downvotes are probably due to editorialising of the title

[kamilm]

Thanks!

Does it sound better now?

[jjgreen]

Looks good to me