How are contributions supported/maintained?

[vermiculus]

One of the greatest challenges Vel pointed out was the time investment it took to vet templates. (I echoed this struggle on gitter.) Even further than that, there will certainly be times when we don't catch everything in the pull request.

How should these situations be handled going forward? How will it impact users, who will likely have no knowledge of this repository?

I want to be cautious here since GitHub is not StackExchange or any other general, question-answering site. It's not designed for that and, more importantly, there are certainly more of those willing to help on TeX.SX (or reddit, or latexforums, or…) than there are maintainers here (or indeed maintainers anywhere). Asking general 'how do I do this' questions are probably not appropriate for GitHub, but perhaps someone should stalk questions that come up (e.g. tags on StackExchange) and curate the appropriate problems into GitHub issues.

[johannesbottcher]

I think those are two very important and different questions. I would split that into different issues.

[vermiculus]

Which two questions, specifically? My intuition for 'how will this impact users' is that it will depend on those services that use this backend.

[johannesbottcher]

Sorry, misread the title.

• Maintaining a template
• Supporting users of the template (which leads to several new discussions, deferred till after Darmstadt)