Re:Rust Ghost, Signing Off
by cxr on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @11:39AM
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My suspicions are compatible with yours. Last year I jotted down some thoughts about a possible solution:
> Zero-obligation communities could probably extract more value from their contributors (including converting passive bystanders into contributors) by fostering a culture of voluntoldism and getting maintainers to put in some asks of their own. Right now, people are half-insisting that there's something intrinsic to open source that is placing a high burden on maintainers. Mostly, I regard this as the result of bad practices originating from the culture of GitHub, not intrinsic to open source. But either way, it's widely reported that maintainers are burning out. Users are showing up and asking for too much. How about reversing polarity and start conditioning maintainers into asking for things from users and less involved contributors? The idea is for maintainers to give consideration to the most effective way a project would benefit if it had at its disposal a voluntary group of mechanical turks.
> Zero-obligation communities could probably extract more value from their contributors (including converting passive bystanders into contributors) by fostering a culture of voluntoldism and getting maintainers to put in some asks of their own. Right now, people are half-insisting that there's something intrinsic to open source that is placing a high burden on maintainers. Mostly, I regard this as the result of bad practices originating from the culture of GitHub, not intrinsic to open source. But either way, it's widely reported that maintainers are burning out. Users are showing up and asking for too much. How about reversing polarity and start conditioning maintainers into asking for things from users and less involved contributors? The idea is for maintainers to give consideration to the most effective way a project would benefit if it had at its disposal a voluntary group of mechanical turks.
https://www.colbyrussell.com/2019/02/15/what-happened-in-jan...