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Any OSS project can be relatively closed to outside contributors based on how opinionated the core owners of the repo are, it isn't just corporate open source.
by cromwellian 7y ago
Any OSS project can be relatively closed to outside contributors based on how opinionated the core owners of the repo are, it isn't just corporate open source.
You think the Guava team has a low opinion of patches? Does that mean Linux isn't a community project because Linus wields an iron fist when it comes to accepting patches?
- pas 7y agoYet Linux is full if half-assed undocumented cruft despite Linus' vigilance. It's just gigantic. He doesn't care much about how great your new LSM, IO scheduler, FS is, if it's relatively sane, and you don't do crazy things elsewhere in the code, he'll pull it. (Nowadays it's not directly him.)
- rswail 7y agoHow much of it is device drivers for arcane devices though?