[acemarke]

Because that's the responsibility we've placed on ourselves :)

I actually did a recent conference talk called "Maintaining a Library and a Community" where I discussed how being an OSS maintainer is really about communicating with your users and contributors, more than it is about writing code yourself. And yes, a big part of that is responding to issues _and_ reviewing externally-contributed PRs:

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2024/11/presentations-main...

I also even just tweeted over the weekend about how a user filed a PR to add a good new option to one of my libraries, but I still had to take time to review it, figure out what additional functionality should be added, then add tests and docs:

- https://bsky.app/profile/acemarke.dev/post/3m6defzgvcl2n