You'll become "the guy who doesn't respond to GitHub issues" and that is going to backfire on you because commercial software, or other projects, or prosoective employers are going to be coming and saying "you see, this open-source software is not or poorly maintained"
I recommend on saying "Thanks for sharing the idea"
Once you have time to work on your project, then you create a new sprint based on a couple of ideas that you or users submitted.
The question of whether to implement the feature or not, is to be answered during product priotization while assessing potential engineering cost and impact of the feature.
Whether the user is annoying or not isn't directly relevant, and if it is, it should be based on potential reputational risk under the impact score.
> You'll become "the guy who doesn't respond to GitHub issues" and that is going to backfire on you because commercial software or other projects are going to be coming and saying "you see, this open-source software is not maintained"
You're mistaken this as my default response handling. That's incorrect. This is only for the repeated and unsolicited actors who have nothing better to do than make your life a living hell.
The logs will show that you're being responsive, and that this person clearly doesn't let go.
>"you see, this open-source software is not or poorly maintained"
They could just as easily be saying "wow, look at this OSS project, there are so many feature requests they can't keep up. Seems like it's valuable; people really make use of it. Let's hire!"
I recommend on saying "Thanks for sharing the idea"
Once you have time to work on your project, then you create a new sprint based on a couple of ideas that you or users submitted.
The question of whether to implement the feature or not, is to be answered during product priotization while assessing potential engineering cost and impact of the feature.
Whether the user is annoying or not isn't directly relevant, and if it is, it should be based on potential reputational risk under the impact score.