miniblog.

Do you think language/API docs websites should support comments? Pros: Adds context, familiar format, engages community Cons: Can disincentivise contributions, comments might promote bad practices I've only seen PHP and clojuredocs offer this.

Should we incentivise open source contributions more? "You use feature FOO a lot! You're probably an expert, have you considered helping with FOO issue triage on our bug tracker [link]?" Encouraging power users to contribute back could certainly help when communities grow.

Quantifying Gnome contributions by frequency, tenure, and affiliated companies: https://hpjansson.org/blag/2020/12/16/on-the-graying-of-gnome/ Whilst the methodology can't be perfect, it's a nice way of measuring contribution trends.