Absolutely, but is it viable to ask every maintainer to juggle that discussion about community management fused with technical direction?  Maybe? Maybe not.  So many things are social constructs fused with how technological systems interact with them!  

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 1:15 PM Tom Ellis <tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2017@jaguarpaw.co.uk> wrote:
There is perhaps a happy medium here, whereby interested parties start
a "friends-of-lucid" repository.  Unlimited amounts of discussion
could take place there, and information and PRs could be forwarded
upstream as necessary, in a way that is respectful of the upstream
maintainer.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 05:06:19PM +0100, chris done wrote:
> Unfortunately, GitHub doesn't distinguish between "mailing list
> where chat can occur" and "tasks the devs plan to put time and
> energy into", it's all dumped into one pot.
[...]
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020, at 4:26 PM, Gabriel Gonzalez wrote:
> > Would it be possible to leave the issue tracker on but just
> > disable your own email notifications for the repository if you do
> > not plan to maintain it? The two main reasons I suggest this are:
> >
> > * We would like a way to be able to petition Oleg for changes (or
> >   whoever is the maintainer at the time)
>
> > * We would like to know if other people share the same problem we
> >   do (or vice versa, educate other users of problems we are having
> >   and potential workarounds)
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