Judging by the Jia Tan situation, I think maintainers should judge contributors as well.
It’s the maintainer’s job to be defensive of their projects and prevent them from being abused. It’s not necessarily their job to build and foster a community.
It’s the maintainer’s job to be defensive of their projects and prevent them from being abused. It’s not necessarily their job to build and foster a community.
Maybe for growing your maintainer collection, with privileged access, but not contributions?
It means whatever the maintainer wants it to mean. We’re all humans. Open source isn’t a structured corporation.
I think it’s perfectly fine for a maintainer’s opinions to affect the people and contributions to the project that they’re maintaining.