named arguments, string interpolation, please stop.

[bachmeier]

On Thursday, 11 January 2024 at 14:47:16 UTC, zjh wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 January 2024 at 14:34:57 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> Its a
>> tricky organizational problem. It's hard to have high 
>> quality/standards with a lot of contributors.
>
> This is an organizational issue, how to arrange `manpower, 
> time, and tasks`?

Not so much. It's an ownership issue. You have to tell someone 
that they get to choose how to do the work. If it meets certain 
criteria, such as passing a set of tests specified in advance, it 
gets merged.

Very few people are willing to spend hours of their free time 
doing work, only to have it rejected because it's not the way the 
person in charge would have done it. I sure wouldn't. Especially 
considering that the criteria for rejection are arbitrary and 
revealed only after the fact.

If the folks at the very top of the organization want to maintain 
ownership of everything, the only work that gets done is the work 
they do.