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What are some good rules to follow when handling people who want to collaborate on a project that is on your personal repo?

It looks like GitHub doesn't allow fine control of permissions unless it is an organization repo. I looked around and a lot of other projects (specifically browser extensions) still live on the main dev's account. I don't have any reason to doubt the people who want to help, but it might be nice to know what the best practices are.

Should I add everyone as a collaborator? This runs into the issue above where I can't limit permissions.

Should everyone push contributions from their forks? In that case, how would people work together on a particular feature.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PRs and the review process.

[–] wmassingham@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This. Random people don't get push access. Let them open PRs that you can merge after you've reviewed it and it's been tested to work (and not cause any other bugs).

[–] drlecompte@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

This. If you need anything more complex than that, there's nothing wrong with creating an organization.