What are some good rules to follow when handling people who want to collaborate on a project that is on your personal repo?
It looks like GitHub doesn’t allow fine control of permissions unless it is an organization repo. I looked around and a lot of other projects (specifically browser extensions) still live on the main dev’s account. I don’t have any reason to doubt the people who want to help, but it might be nice to know what the best practices are.
Should I add everyone as a collaborator? This runs into the issue above where I can’t limit permissions.
Should everyone push contributions from their forks? In that case, how would people work together on a particular feature.
You mustn’t let everyone to have permission in the repo. Only maintainers reserve that right. The owner however, will be in full control of all the permission. Issues will be created, and highlighting PR must be tagged with the same. When a maintainer deems it fit to be introduced in the repository through a review process, it will be merged.