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> no one is paying me to write extra code (or any code, really) Fair enough, I understand the mentality, it's not easy developing and maintaining packages in y

• ryannevius 7y ago
  > But it's important to remember that thousands of hours of frustrated google searches And don't forget about support requests posted to the "issues" in the repo itself.
  • _squared_ 7y ago
    As an open-source maintainer, helpful error/debug messages is the key to reduce the number of GitHub issues, mails and all the other way people will track you down to ask for your help. Ultimately spending an hour writing helpful errors can save you hundred of hours in support. Of course you can just ignore everybody asking for help, but then if people aren't going to be able to use your project why make it open-source in the first place?