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Worse, I've seen open source project maintainers tell to mere users (as in, non-programmers, just using the software) to 'add it yourself'. Ok the maintainers c
by stinos 9y ago
Worse, I've seen open source project maintainers tell to mere users (as in, non-programmers, just using the software) to 'add it yourself'. Ok the maintainers cannot really know the user's background, but still, such attitude raises some questions.
- untog 9y agoTo be fair, most OSS maintainers are doing the work for free. If they don't see the priority in the feature you want, it's not a bad thing to ask you to do it yourself.
- kpil 9y agoIf someone sends a "Please add X, KTXHBYE" , then I can see why a simple "Add it yourself" might be the response. I offer here a response that you can use to add as a mental sed stage when reading mail from people that work for free and have little time: Add it yourself -> Thanks for your suggestion. I will make a note of it but it is unlikely that I have the time and resources to implement this. You are more than welcome to submit a well tested patch.
- danielbarla 9y agoI also have this problem with the "where's your pull request" trend lately. Yes, I use open source project X. When I detect a bug, I'll definitely try to isolate the cause and reduce it to a minimum, and then log a Github issue with clear instructions on how to reproduce it. As a developer, I feel that this is massively helpful; if only the bug reports I get in my professional life were like this, instead of "yeah, there was an error - I have no idea how". But no, I'm not going to put in 30+ hours to download, build and try to figure out where the bug is in the actual code. There are people who are in a better position to do that. If everyone who has a car problem had to submit a diagram to the factory on how they would change the car's design, we'd all be spending a lot of time doing stuff we're not good at.