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To just respect the guideline to contributing shouldn't be too much to ask keeping in mind the time and work I happily volunteer to this project. Given the amo

by gorhill 10y ago

To just respect the guideline to contributing shouldn't be too much to ask keeping in mind the time and work I happily volunteer to this project. Given the amount of invalid issues that keep being opened[1], asking me to spend time to detail why issues marked as "invalid" are invalid is to ask me to spend a whole lot of precious free time on not working to improve uBO. CONTRIBUTING[2] is there to be read and respected. If you disagree with it, best is to not open issues. Countless other people understand why it is needed and respect it, and helps the project get better. 1. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues?q=label%3Ainvalid+is%3Aclosed https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues?q=label%3Ainvalid+i... 2. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.m...

WayneBro 10y ago
It's ridiculous to think that every single person will interpret your rules the same exact way. That is why it's rude to just close issues without comment. Furthermore, since the person closing the issue is already quite obviously aware of which rule was broken - how much effort are we haggling over? A couple seconds? Anyway, as I've said it's clear from reading many of the declined issues that people are annoyed by your behavior. It's also clear that you are annoyed by your users, so I wouldn't say that you "happily" volunteer.
dingaling 10y ago
You might wish to rename CONTRIBUTING.md to something like SUBMITTING_ISSUES.md. In most open source projects, contributing refers to contributing code not opening tickets for issues or requests. Even Github's help documents align with this understanding: https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines I have never used uBlock or looked at its project pages before now and would have skipped-past CONTRIBUTING.md if I was looking for issue-reporting guidelines. The current title doesn't even tally with the first line of the document. There is also no reference to the appropriate issue-reporting process from README.md.
- gorhill 10y ago
  The link to CONTRIBUTING appears at the top of the issue template when one click the "New issue" button. This the top line which appears when opening a new issue: > Read first: <https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#> https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.m...
  - erikb 10y ago
    Okay. For me it looks like the complaint was unsubstantiated. Thanks for the detailed discussion, gorhill. And thanks for maintaining uBO. Using it happily since it became a topic on HN.

by gorhill 10y ago

WayneBro 10y ago

It's ridiculous to think that every single person will interpret your rules the same exact way. That is why it's rude to just close issues without comment. Furthermore, since the person closing the issue is already quite obviously aware of which rule was broken - how much effort are we haggling over? A couple seconds? Anyway, as I've said it's clear from reading many of the declined issues that people are annoyed by your behavior. It's also clear that you are annoyed by your users, so I wouldn't say that you "happily" volunteer.

dingaling 10y ago

You might wish to rename CONTRIBUTING.md to something like SUBMITTING_ISSUES.md. In most open source projects, contributing refers to contributing code not opening tickets for issues or requests. Even Github's help documents align with this understanding: https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines I have never used uBlock or looked at its project pages before now and would have skipped-past CONTRIBUTING.md if I was looking for issue-reporting guidelines. The current title doesn't even tally with the first line of the document. There is also no reference to the appropriate issue-reporting process from README.md.

gorhill 10y ago
The link to CONTRIBUTING appears at the top of the issue template when one click the "New issue" button. This the top line which appears when opening a new issue: > Read first: <https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#> https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.m...
- erikb 10y ago
  Okay. For me it looks like the complaint was unsubstantiated. Thanks for the detailed discussion, gorhill. And thanks for maintaining uBO. Using it happily since it became a topic on HN.