> every single line you merge becomes your responsibility
Your responsibility to whom?
Your responsibility to whom?
- If your build breaks in the future because of this, nobody will come help you.
- If you decide in the future that you want to cross-compile to a new platform and porting contributed code is a big pain, that's on you.
- If the contributed code results in crashes for some users, they will come back and complain to you.
- Etc.
Sometimes it is very low-risk, i.e. you know for sure that it won't impact many users or that it is easy to revert if necessary.
Sometimes it has a fundamental impact on your codebase, and if you build on top of that then it will be very hard to "just revert".
It's the job of the maintainer to decide what kind of risk they are willing to take. The thing is that many contributors don't understand that and put a lot of pressure to force their contribution in. And that's how you end up burning out the maintainers who try to be nice.