Well a lot of useful things are not useful because they are innovative, but well designed an executed.
replyIt's similar to old Usenet "killfiles" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file
reply...or spam "RBL" lists which were often shared. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_blocklist
This makes a lot more sense for large scale and high profile projects, and it eliminates low quality slop PRs by default with the contributors having to earn the trust of the core maintainers to contribute directly to the project.
replyit also increases the barrier to new adopters
replywhy not use ai to help with the ai problem, why prefer this extra coordination effort and implementation?
That's the whole point. There are many new adopters and few competent ones.
replyI mean to well meaning contributors, I understand the goal of vouch, I think it goes too far and you'll turn off said well meaning contributors
replyI certainly have dropped off when projects have burdensome rules, even before ai slop fest
The barrier in the Ghostty project is to simply open a discussion. It's not really hard.
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