choo121600 commented on PR #228: URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow-steward/pull/228#issuecomment-4526558013
I want to share an honest reservation about this skill, while also acknowledging upfront that I’m not sure my concern is necessarily the right conclusion. I tested the skill on my own GitHub handle (choo121600) as the simplest possible subject. The fetch and render work as intended, the output is well-structured, the disclaimers are present, and the maintainer-time savings this PR aims for do feel real to me. Those positives are clear. What I’m less sure about is the experience of using it. The skill makes it very easy to see which areas align with typical PMC expectations and which areas appear lacking. As I was testing it, I found myself naturally thinking, “Should I try to fill in those gaps?” What felt slightly uncomfortable to me was how quickly and naturally that progression happened. Measurable things became goals much faster than I expected, and it made me wonder whether contributors might gradually optimize for what is visible in the table rather than for the many kinds of valuable but less visible contributions that communities also depend on. Of course, self-application is not the intended use case here. (<nominator> is the expected caller, not <candidate>.) But if this becomes one of Magpie’s default support skills, I wonder whether regardless of intent it could become the path of least resistance inside the project, and whether that might gradually shift contributor attention toward the things that are easiest to quantify. I genuinely don’t know the answer myself, but I think it’s a question worth wrestling with. Maybe this is something we could discuss together once we have a mailing list in place. cc @potiuk -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
