The rust project has a burnout problem

• oil

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  Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

  

This is true, but then the corrolary is that new PRs need to come with this higher and rigorous level of test coverage.

And then that becomes a bit of a barrier to contribution -- that's a harness

I often write entirely new test harnesses for features, e.g. for https://www.oilshell.org, many of them linked here . All of these run in the CI - https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/quality.html

The good thing is that it definitely helps me accept PRs faster. Current contributors are good at this kind of exhaustive testing, but many PRs aren't

• issuewhiz

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  IssueWhiz automates the triaging of issues in your repositories. It helps streamline the process of categorizing issues and enforcing project's guidelines using customizable and flexible rules.

A few guidelines to avoid maintainer's burnout:

* Do not allow questions on GitHub issues, it's a poor place for conversations. I find Discourse or some other forum (or mailing list) a better place to do that, which allows community participation (and you can automate moderation using something like https://github.com/pierotofy/issuewhiz)

* People owe you nothing, just as you owe them nothing; you don't have to fix an issue or merge a pull request because somebody opened one.

* Try review and merge contributions, but on your own timeframe. If people have urgency, kindly invite them to get a paid support agreement.

* Don't engage in quarrels; you always have the option to ignore or ban the offenders.

* Document FAQs.

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• rustc-dev-guide

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  A guide to how rustc works and how to contribute to it.

  

yes, it's possible! that list doesn't exist today but i would love to create it. i wrote a draft a few years ago before shifting to other work; someone recently expressed interest in reviving that project: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc-dev-guide/pull/1463

<3 i'm glad you enjoyed it

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