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This is true, but then the corrolary is that new PRs need to come with this higher and rigorous level of test coverage.
And then that becomes a bit of a barrier to contribution -- that's a harness
I often write entirely new test harnesses for features, e.g. for https://www.oilshell.org, many of them linked here . All of these run in the CI - https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/quality.html
The good thing is that it definitely helps me accept PRs faster. Current contributors are good at this kind of exhaustive testing, but many PRs aren't
A few guidelines to avoid maintainer's burnout:
* Do not allow questions on GitHub issues, it's a poor place for conversations. I find Discourse or some other forum (or mailing list) a better place to do that, which allows community participation (and you can automate moderation using something like https://github.com/pierotofy/issuewhiz)
* People owe you nothing, just as you owe them nothing; you don't have to fix an issue or merge a pull request because somebody opened one.
* Try review and merge contributions, but on your own timeframe. If people have urgency, kindly invite them to get a paid support agreement.
* Don't engage in quarrels; you always have the option to ignore or ban the offenders.
* Document FAQs.
yes, it's possible! that list doesn't exist today but i would love to create it. i wrote a draft a few years ago before shifting to other work; someone recently expressed interest in reviving that project: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc-dev-guide/pull/1463
<3 i'm glad you enjoyed it