@porres For instance on my fork i put all the tutorials outside of the software repository < https://github.com/Spaghettis >. I created an organization that owns all the stuff. And thus i could give easily the rights for anybody to work on those tutorials, without to care to add noise into the main development. I could even give push rights for an user (that have no idea about C/C++) without fears (for me and him/her/it) to make something wrong. In my case i don't have time to spend in large debates, and such with that approach i would quickly give/split responsabilities to avoid to blow my head. Anyway that is only speculations, since in my case i have zero user, and in your case as you said:
Pd Vanilla is developed and maintained by one person: Miller Puckette.