Initially I liked the idea, but the more I think about it the more this feels like it just boils down to: only allow contributions from a list of trusted people.
Initially I liked the idea, but the more I think about it the more this feels like it just boils down to: only allow contributions from a list of trusted people.
Well a lot of useful things are not useful because they are innovative, but well designed an executed.
It's similar to old Usenet "killfiles" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file
...or spam "RBL" lists which were often shared. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_blocklist
This makes a lot more sense for large scale and high profile projects, and it eliminates low quality slop PRs by default with the contributors having to earn the trust of the core maintainers to contribute directly to the project.
it also increases the barrier to new adopters
why not use ai to help with the ai problem, why prefer this extra coordination effort and implementation?
That's the whole point. There are many new adopters and few competent ones.
I mean to well meaning contributors, I understand the goal of vouch, I think it goes too far and you'll turn off said well meaning contributors
I certainly have dropped off when projects have burdensome rules, even before ai slop fest
The barrier in the Ghostty project is to simply open a discussion. It's not really hard.