Trusting open-source software (OSS) contributors can yield unexpected benefits. When Simon Willison, founder of Django, abandoned his Django library for storing financial data, he read a blog post about OSS contributor trust that resonated with him. So, when a large pull request from someone he’d never met came in for his forgotten project, he gave them commit rights to the repo. Years later, he discovered that the library, django-money, was the most popular repository he had and was being used in crowdfunding projects. Thanks to the diligent work of the PR requester and a third contributor, the project continued to gain popularity.
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