The forked elephant in the room

[Don Allen]

On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 10:47:11 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 10:06:47 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> but it also can't be the case that the default is to merge PRs 
>> unless "there's a reason not to".
>
> Why not? I get that such PRs are not necessarily net positives 
> in purely technical sense, but if there's no reason not to 
> merge them they can't be big technical negatives either.
>
> If accepting PRs like that helps to keep people around, then 
> considering the morale effect, I'd argue merging such PRs is 
> still a net positive.

This is an excellent point that I think Walter and the others who 
manage this project need to take very seriously. The 
technical-social balance of this project is clearly skewed, the 
evidence being a long-term pattern of talented people heading for 
the exits.