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What's the incentive to those developers to take on this pain-in-the-ass corporate kind of work, rather than just doing the work that they enjoy that made the p
by thrower123 8y ago
What's the incentive to those developers to take on this pain-in-the-ass corporate kind of work, rather than just doing the work that they enjoy that made the project noticeable in the first place? Nothing is owed to anybody, if it's being made into unpleasant management work, you can just pick up your ball and go home and do something else.
I'm not really sure I want new developers doing core work on a project, and would be somewhat skeptical of projects that did adopt such practices without heavy oversight.
- mlthoughts2018 8y agoThe incentive is just if they want the project to survive and thrive and continue. They may not want this, or may value their pleasure of hacking on it higher than long-term liveness. I’m not making any normative judgments about _whether_ they want one set of preferences or the other, only commenting that it turns out (normatively) badly, from the perspective of the community around the project, if they don’t prioritize the overall liveness of the project (which comes at the cost of “doing as they please”).