Community norms for unsolicited communication

[Tamas_Papp]

@ChrisRackauckas

would be nice if every package in METADATA was required to list who the maintainers are supposed to be, since on some core but not very user-facing repos it can be hard to find out who “runs” the package or who should be reviewing PRs

I think that would be great. To clarify, I think that it is perfectly fine to contact maintainers via PM or the @ mechanism, but it is nice to do the following beforehand:

1. search for answers in the forum archives, maybe the same topic has come up recently (like it did for Makie vs Plots),
2. ask a question here,
3. open an issue (if applicable, for specific bugs or questions).

I think that disabling all notifications is quite drastic. I think it is better if the option is available, but used with restraint.