The pull request hack is fucking magic
Have never understood the desire to hoard commit rights, half the point of RCS is rollback, and as the article says, once intent is established through effort ("proof of work") there is little risk in assuming good faith until demonstrated otherwise.Commit rights are an asymmetrical reward for someone showing interest in a piece of code - cheap to offer and incredibly valuable to receive. They also immediately reduce the long term burden and "ownership" of the code, and for the trusted committer, massively reduce friction and any sense of gatekeeping in contributing to the project. I've done this on at least 4 projects, 3 of them were eventually transferred to the new long term maintainer and 1 became an org of its own, with two maintainers having full admin