What does it mean to judge a contributor? They're a faceless account, maybe a dog on the internet. Isn't the contribution the defining piece of work?
Maybe for growing your maintainer collection, with privileged access, but not contributions?
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.