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Re:On Being a Free Software Maintainer by winter_blue on Sunday March 31, 2019 @01:40PM (#19536931)
I think a good policy to have would be to tell everyone: "if you have a feature request or if you find a bug, make a pull request implementing it (or fixing the bug)".

For feature requests, perhaps it'll be good to encourage people to discuss it first, before they start implementing it.

But make it very clear that you're not doing free work for anyone simply because they ask. (And that this is open-source project, and everyone is expected to contribute.)

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Re:On Being a Free Software Maintainer by lazyasciiart on Sunday March 31, 2019 @03:02PM (#19537544)
I do some work in a project with this rule, and I hate it because the end effect is no one place to track bugs and known issues. Not every bug needs to be fixed, and they certainly don't need to be fixed immediately. But it's useful to know that they are there!
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