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20 days agoPlus, speaking as an OSS maintainer for some rather large libraries… Its obvious. You can also just close MRs and if the user comments and engages in meaningful discussion you reopen. Cost of a wrong decision is low.


Plus, speaking as an OSS maintainer for some rather large libraries… Its obvious. You can also just close MRs and if the user comments and engages in meaningful discussion you reopen. Cost of a wrong decision is low.
This is equivalent to saying ‘guns don’t kill people, people kill people’ which is a way of implying you shouldn’t regulate the tool. The tool matters, and how its positioned and what it’s given access to do matters.