What are some good rules to follow when handling people who want to collaborate on a project that is on your personal repo?

It looks like GitHub doesn’t allow fine control of permissions unless it is an organization repo. I looked around and a lot of other projects (specifically browser extensions) still live on the main dev’s account. I don’t have any reason to doubt the people who want to help, but it might be nice to know what the best practices are.

Should I add everyone as a collaborator? This runs into the issue above where I can’t limit permissions.

Should everyone push contributions from their forks? In that case, how would people work together on a particular feature.

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Give CodeBerg a try (they’re on mastodon too), they provide an instance of Forgejo, which is a fork of gitea, which is a fork of gogs.

Or try another git-oriented provider, to see if their features fit your needs, like Gitlab.

Good advice but not the question asked at all haha

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It looks like GitHub doesn’t allow fine control of permissions

Hence my answer.

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