tyiu on Nostr: I haven’t had to maintain an open-source project that people wanted to contribute ...
I haven’t had to maintain an open-source project that people wanted to contribute to, but I imagine some of the issues can be mitigated (not completely) by always striving for complete test coverage, making it easy to validate and verify most of the behaviour in an automated way, and delegating code review responsibilities to others who you trust to follow the same verification process and rigor.
I believe
jb55 (npub1xts…kk5s) may have mentioned something similar many months ago about spending a lot of his time managing pull requests on Damus. Not sure if it’s the same now.
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