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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 03:42:09 JST Evan Prodromou

   How can we as a community help Fediverse projects that have stopped progressing?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 04:09:11 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋

     @o_simardcasanova that's probably a good first step!

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     Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋 (o_simardcasanova@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 04:09:12 JST Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋

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     @evan Do we know why they stopped?

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     Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 05:25:54 JST Gabe Kangas

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     • Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋
     @evan @o_simardcasanova More contributors. If one person is working on something, and they slow down, nobody is allowed to complain if nobody is willing to help.
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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 05:25:54 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Emelia 👸🏻
     • Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋

     @gabek @o_simardcasanova OK, but @thisismissem feels like the overhead of reviewing contributions like PRs is actually more work than doing it oneself.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 05:49:42 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Gabe Kangas
     • Emelia 👸🏻
     • Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋

     @gabek @thisismissem @o_simardcasanova I think that's probably fair. This feels like something important to work on.

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     Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 05:49:43 JST Gabe Kangas

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     • Emelia 👸🏻
     • Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋
     @evan @o_simardcasanova @thisismissem I’m coming at this conversation from the bias of a sole maintainer of a project where I’m doing my best to keep my head above water. I would love have a core team so I don’t always feel so guilty that I’m not doing enough. PRs take time, but what a gift. I’m immensely thankful for every single one. But long term core team members would be better.
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     Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 05:49:44 JST Gabe Kangas

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     • Emelia 👸🏻
     • Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋
     @evan @o_simardcasanova @thisismissem If a project is no longer very active, and you’re wondering what can be done to help it, then inconveniencing a maintainer who is not as active with PRs is the least of the concerns. The project needs people to work on it or it’s dead. The goal should be to build a core group of contributors, not have sporadic drive-by contributions. That way it’s not all on one person. Including the job of reviewing PRs.