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IRC channels and mailing list are excellent for informal questioning about a project. You can search for guidance, see if a feature would be well received, and
by neves 8y ago
IRC channels and mailing list are excellent for informal questioning about a project. You can search for guidance, see if a feature would be well received, and receive a green light before starting to implement something.
Other day I thought about contributing to Yarn, the Javascript package manager, but the only way that I found to communicate with the developers were issues in GitHub. Since I didn't know if the feature I wanted would be well received, I just quit.
- dean177 8y agoThat seems a little bit extreme, why not just open the issue?
- y4mi 8y agothat issue becomes part of public history. i'm not the parent, but that is the main reason i try to abstain from posting on public forums unless its under a pseudonym, which my github account isn't. I'm not trying to say that my anonymity is guaranteed with irc, its just unlikely that future employers and similar link it to me.
- reitanqild 8y agoAgree. That's probably one of tje reasons why HN is so interesting: Requiring everyone to sign in with full, verified name limits what people can talk about. In fact I'd almost recommend against commenting online on anything using your full name.
- cerberusss 8y agoHave a look at Firefox Multi-Account Containers. You can open a tab that has a different color, and it uses a different cookie database. Very useful, because you can create an extra Github account and quickly switch between those accounts. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...