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This is a great reminder that simple manners and gratitude can go a long way. What I hope is also apparent is that thank you notes will not be enough on their
by wakamoleguy 9y ago
This is a great reminder that simple manners and gratitude can go a long way.
What I hope is also apparent is that thank you notes will not be enough on their own to fix the unfortunate trend of entitlement, underfunding, and burnout that is attacking open source maintainers. Any step is progress, though, so long as we don't fool ourselves into thinking it's literally all we need to do.
- jroseattle 9y agoThis, a thousand times this. As an ex-contributor to some old school Apache projects, I know too well the over-whelming feeling that the marathon of maintenance can elicit. Open source becomes open-ended. For sure, start with a thank you. People appreciate thanks for their efforts, no matter the result. It can make all the difference for some people. Want to go beyond and be a little helpful? It's easy -- just take a look around a project and add a contribution. It doesn't have to be an earth-shattering feature; in fact, it's the mundane that can really make a project so much better. Add a unit test, fix a bug, update some documentation. There is always something that can be improved.
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