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One of the rewards of participating in OSS is to make your name visible, this can then be used as creds to gain commit rights or to talk at conferences as well
by dorfsmay 11y ago
One of the rewards of participating in OSS is to make your name visible, this can then be used as creds to gain commit rights or to talk at conferences as well as proof of competence when looking for a job.
Interestingly, I've had the same experience when reporting and asking how to contribute to Python 3, not by a core dev but somebody "stealing" my bug and quickly submitting a patch!
- eptcyka 11y agoThe open source community is not there to provide you with cred and visibility. It's there to so software can be developed in a way that certain people think is the best way to develop software.
- mixmastamyk 11y agoSomething similar happened that left me with mixed feelings recently. I recently came up with a new feature idea for Python, and a core dev ran with it. I was very happy at first, but then he wrote a pep, implemented it, and got all the congrats. I had hoped to help, and put something on my resume, but was shut out. "Thanks for improving my pep" on a mailing list is all the credit I got (and work I was able to do on it). Kind of disappointing, though I will enjoy the feature.
- elcct 11y agoSometimes person reporting an issue along with the code, doesn't get it quite right and core dev can immediately see correct solution and can't make himself to wait until original reporter makes it right... of course it doesn't happen often but it does.
- dorfsmay 11y agoOne of the project I participated the most was ansible, and in a case like this, @mpdehaan2 would just push back and comment until your PR was acceptable, which was encouraging and making you contribute more.