The forked elephant in the room

[Dukc]

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.