Pieter Hintjens (author of ZeroMQ) wrote and spoke a lot about merging liberally. Great advice IMHO.
> merge pull requests liberally and get new contributors’ “vision of progress on record” so that they immediately become members of the community. Worry about fixing the progress later.
> merge pull requests liberally and get new contributors’ “vision of progress on record” so that they immediately become members of the community. Worry about fixing the progress later.
See also https://jeremyfelt.com/2016/03/12/pieter-hintjens-building-o...