In my main project we added a new requirement that all new contributors meet a maintainer in a non-textual format before their first PR is merged. Seems to work well for a small project.

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bluGill 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Only if you have maintainers everywhere. I live in a small city in the middle of the US - how far is it to a maintainer? 4 hours to Kansas City, or fly to San Francisco? Either way the burden seems far too high.

	▲	forgotTheLast 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Non-textual can mean audio or video call, not necessarily in person.
	▲	nemomarx 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Isn't the burden being that high the point? It keeps a small team who all know each other working on it, and everyone who does get on the team has some high investment in the project.

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idiotsecant 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What an elegantly common sense solution. It's also probably a really good way to make contacts with interesting people.

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boredatoms 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Like a video/phone call?

	▲	j2kun 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Indeed, a request for a short video call filters out most of the people who are looking to pad their resume with LLM-automated contributions, while adding an extra layer of welcome to genuine newbies who want to join the community.
	▲	bluGill 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm not sure if AI can do those today, but they probably can in the near future. (probably we will be able to see obvious "that can't be human" for a while longer)