At some size, a project grows beyond the scope of what one person can do.
Until then it’s possible that taking contributions is more work that the author doing it themselves.
In any case, extensive test coverage is a the only way I think you can take contributions for even a medium size project.
I have a o(10k) loc project that takes contributions. The contributions are more for community building than anything else. I evaluate pull requests based on code quality and if the tests pass - I don’t ever manually test it.
It’s a lot of work to do even just that when the project falls off my priority list.
Until then it’s possible that taking contributions is more work that the author doing it themselves.
In any case, extensive test coverage is a the only way I think you can take contributions for even a medium size project.
I have a o(10k) loc project that takes contributions. The contributions are more for community building than anything else. I evaluate pull requests based on code quality and if the tests pass - I don’t ever manually test it.
It’s a lot of work to do even just that when the project falls off my priority list.