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“So, you decided to contribute to open source”
- aarohmankad 9y agoMy biggest pain point when I contribute to open source has always been the owner/maintainers being unresponsive to new issues/pull requests. I wonder if this is a consequence of the behavior Hammer is describing?
- voltagex_ 9y agoIssues I can understand not responding to but pull requests that fix things and pass tests should be a one-click merge.
- klez 9y agoThat may be dangerous. What if the patch works, passes all tests by contains non-obviously malicious (or simply non-obviously buggy, which no current test catches) code? I prefer maintainers taking a bit more time to review it instead of doing one-click merges. Of course, there's a world between one-click merge and total unresponsiveness, but still.
- x1798DE 9y agoI don't know why people take this stuff so personally. I maintain open source resources and for the most part people have been fine. Most of my complaints are that I don't always get reproducible bugs and I don't have enough time to do everything. Even if someone comes in acting all entitled, that's their problem, not mine - since in reality I'm under no obligation to support their use case. I understand that as infrastructure maintainers, you only get noticed when your stuff breaks, so you may feel under siege for doing a thankless job, but honestly the incentives will never change, so it's probably helps to try to recognize how much control you have in that kind of situation.
- voltagex_ 9y agohttps://twitter.com/eranhammer/status/881615072283340800 https://twitter.com/eranhammer/status/881615072283340800
- erlend_sh 9y agoThis is also available as a blog post: https://medium.com/@eranhammer/so-you-decided-to-contribute-to-open-source-93b640cf2ae2 https://medium.com/@eranhammer/so-you-decided-to-contribute-...