Reposted by Tracy Teal
Not every open-source project wants more contributors right now, and that's fine. Four shapes maintainers run — walled castle, clique, university, hippie commune — and your `CONTRIBUTING.md` is saying the quiet part out loud. No wrong answer, just an honest one.
blog.stdlib.io/do-you-want-...
blog.stdlib.io
Do you WANT contributors?
Four ways to run an open-source project—castle, clique, university, commune—and which one you're really running.
