u/smells_serious wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
This post seems very gate-keepy. I think everyone in this sub recognizes who you are and what you've done in the software world at large. You have a bunch of years backing up what you're telling people as information. It's also very clear that the reason you are posting this is
u/michaelnovati replied ·
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1. This isn't gatekeeping, and blaming people all the people with 15+ years of experience for not recognizing your 4 week long projects and handful of commits as "months of experience" isn't going to help you get a job. I think Launch School's Capstone projects are fairly well done and they encapsulate more of the elements of real open source projects.
2. Your project has 50 total issues active and closed and 120 PRs active and closed. Again, you aren't going to get too far blaming "gatekeepers" calling that exponential growth in the industry and being taken seriously. For comparison, I personally have 219 contributions according to GitHub in the first 3 weeks of 2023 alone, and over 5000 in the past year, which is about 100 a week, just me.
3. If your project became truly large enough it would be unmanageable and you would naturally require the community management I described in my post above to keep things in line and keep the peace (e.g. contribution guidelines, testing frameworks and rules, titles and roles, templates, code reviews guidelines, etc....)
4. Also for comparison, here is a very small project that has 1600 issues, 1400 commits and 250 contributors and if I saw that you were a lead contributor on here on a resume I would think you have exposure to "small sized projects". [https://github.com/facebookarchive/draft-js](https://github.com/facebookarchive/draft-js). It was just archived because of lack of activity and maintenance because this is considered such small scale.