In companies, developers are forced to work together -- in good and in bad. This gets stuff done but it also pushes for questionable code quality as personal co

In companies, developers are forced to work together -- in good and in bad. This gets stuff done but it also pushes for questionable code quality as personal conflicts remain unresolved and that takes time from doing good work. In open source world, meaningful contributions only happen when the contributor and the project maintainer connect on a certain level. Nobody wants to work with people they consider jerks if they don't have to. And this is not a fixed set either: differences in opinions can arise and get settled later and a contributor--maintainer connection is respectively broken or (re)established.