Contributors have no shared floor — where should it start?

[jpawlowski]

You closed #1587, #1589 and #1595 for two reasons: shipping a script means standing behind it, and tooling is something each developer should assemble themselves. Both are fair — #1606 takes the first one seriously, documentation only.

What I keep running into is something else. A project with a devcontainer hands every contributor the same starting point, and nobody reads that as being told how to work — it just takes the setup off your plate. vutuv has none, so there is no starting point at all: everyone rebuilds the same few things, on every machine they use, and none of it is visible or reviewable by anyone else.

Two pieces of that floor do exist here: precommit-before-push.sh and scripts/bump_version.exs. I don't think anyone objects to those, because they protect the repository rather than dictate taste. Keeping a fork current feels like the same kind of thing — the work lands on the contributor, but the consequences land here: a version number claimed twice, a diff against a base that is already gone.

So where would you draw the line? Is documentation the whole answer, or is there a class of shared tooling you would be willing to carry?