# Community norms for unsolicited communication

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/community-norms-for-unsolicited-communication/7539>\
**Category:** Community\
**Created:** [December 5, 2017, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/community-norms-for-unsolicited-communication/7539 "2017-12-05T09:59:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/community-norms-for-unsolicited-communication/7539/5 "2017-12-05T16:42:47Z")

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> [@ChrisRackauckas](#):
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> 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](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/prerelease-makie-interactive-plotting/6811)),
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.

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