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Re:Open-source, not open-contribution by tshaddox on Thursday January 28, 2021 @03:44PM (#25948921)
> The parent wants the project to do that so that s/he does not have to fork it him/herself.

That doesn't make a lot of sense. To create a pull request, one must have already done the work to fork the repo themselves. The pull request is an offer to contribute that work back. If the project owners cannot or do not wish to do the work to even triage pull requests, that's fine, but in that case it's pretty clear that a public GitHub repo is the wrong place to be.

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Re:Open-source, not open-contribution by dodobirdlord on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:23PM (#25951692)
Hosting it in public at least gives others the opportunity to fork it if they have a change they want to see happen. But even reading PRs is work that maintainers shouldn’t be forced into, so GitHub should just allow the PR feature to be turned off.
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