[etler]

I was going to say this. People aren't going to work hard for someone else (they'll work enough to get by but that's it). If you empower them they'll be working for themselves, and they'll actually want to do a good job. It reminds me of a blog post by a guy managing a few open source projects. The quality of the pull requests he got were poor, and required a lot of fixing up. He decided to add anyone who gave a pull request as an admin, and suddenly the quality of their code went way up. They weren't working for someone else anymore. They were working for themselves.

[pestaa]

I don't think I would have been brave enough to give admin permissions to authors of disappointing pull requests. Well done.

If you recall who he is, let us know.

[chrisdotcode]

This was Felixge - former core Node.js developer - with his pull request hack [0].

[0] http://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack.html

[etler]

Thanks for finding that!