[Devel] On removing people from the "I want to help!" list if they are already a contributor

[Asheesh Laroia]

We have a bug targeted for this milestone 
<https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue304> for making it so that if you are a 
contributor to a project, you can't get listed in the "I want to help!" 
list of people.

I thought about this some, and I'm having some second thoughts about the 
feature. Krzysztof, forgive me for bringing this up so late in the release 
cycle and after you have already submitted patches (at 
https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue304 ).

Here are some early-morning, meandering thoughts:

* There are some contributors who probably do want to be told what to do 
next. For example, if you usually write code but want to help out with 
website stuff, then maybe you want to click "I want to help". But then on 
the other hand, maybe you're part of the community enough now to be able 
to just ask the people in it. But realistically that's not always true.

* One of the major causes of people+projects showing up on the front page 
of openhatch.org is what appears to be project maintainers clicking "I 
wanna help" and then causing the front page to mention their project. I'm 
loathe to decrease visible activity on the front page!

On the other hand, just taking a sec to skim the feed, one other good way 
to make your project appear on the front page is to write an answer to a 
project page question. That seems like an okay way to get your project on 
the feed, actually, so maybe it's okay if self-wanna-help doesn't put you 
on the front page.

But I'm kind of confused. What do you all think?

-- Asheesh.

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