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Maybe because the consumers of your work are developers? GNOME Calendar (the OP's project) is an app for end users.

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• StavrosK 8y ago
  Possibly, but not all of them are. This isn't, for example: https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt And at most we got a few users asking about why they couldn't install it on 2. Maybe my users are just better-behaved.
  • siwatanejo 8y ago
    Sorry, but any command-line tool is going to be used by advanced computer users, not normies. (If you reply to this that GNOME is not for normies either, or Linux in general, I'll reply 'touche' though.)
• ozim 8y ago
  Why would you imply that "normies" are worse than "techies"? Just look at some places where you get couple of guys that think they are next Linus Torvalds. Other thing to search for, are holy crusaders for something like tabs or spaces. Where I would say real "normies" would not care and be "oh it just does not work, meh". There is probably the same amount of crazy people that would go full length to find you to fix their problem and do it for free.
• acdha 8y ago
  Developers tend to be worse in my experience. I picked up maintaining a few projects awhile back (django-haystack, pysolr) which are in that unfortunate position of having been popular enough to get used a lot but never getting much corporate support. The issue trackers regularly get requests which are important to someone’s business but not enough to actually do any work. Sometimes that gets as far as a pull request but that much less commonly gets to the point of passing tests or support for more of the support matrix than they need, although that often doesn’t rule out requests to just merge it anyway.