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This sets a dangerous precedent. You shouldn't need to contribute financially to file an issue about an open source product you use. Edit: cleaned up the wordi

This sets a dangerous precedent. You shouldn't need to contribute financially to file an issue about an open source product you use. Edit: cleaned up the wording a bit by removing the "raise a concern" bit. Hopefully that removes any ambiguity in the comment.

BookPage 7y ago
> or file an issue about an open source product you use. Are you kidding me? This is literally the mechanism to provide feedback to the contributors.
- justinclift 7y ago
  Why would people need to pay money to file issues?
- mjlee 7y ago
  I think the statement is meant to be read as: > You shouldn't need to contribute financially to [...] file an issue about an open source product you use.
  - mynameisvlad 7y ago
    Yes, sorry, I had an extra bit in there that I removed before posting the comment, and in the process made it a bit harder to read. This is definitely what I was intending.
diminoten 7y ago
File? No. Get worked/dealt with at all? Yeah. Developers can't feed their children with good vibes.
- alrs 7y ago
  Pay-to-file is fine, if that's what the authors want.
  - pbhjpbhj 7y ago
    It seems pretty contrary to the spirit of OSS (shared improvement, for example), so I wouldn't call it "fine". "Within the authors available options", maybe. Like -- and pardon my crudity -- you could throw a free party, then poo on the floor, totally allowed but perhaps not within the spirit of parties.
alrs 7y ago
Nowhere, in the tenets of "free software" or "open source", is there any expectation there is any mechanism whatsoever for support or even "filing issues." If an open-source project wants to charge you money to file an issue, that's totally OK and totally in-bounds.
- jessaustin 7y ago
  Haha that's a fun revenue model.
LoSboccacc 7y ago
it sounds like the perfect monetisation strategy for open source. as long as contributing a fix via a pull request is free opening a ticket to cover for the dev time needed to work on the issue in your behalf seems just fair

BookPage 7y ago

> or file an issue about an open source product you use. Are you kidding me? This is literally the mechanism to provide feedback to the contributors.

justinclift 7y ago
Why would people need to pay money to file issues?
mjlee 7y ago
I think the statement is meant to be read as: > You shouldn't need to contribute financially to [...] file an issue about an open source product you use.
- mynameisvlad 7y ago
  Yes, sorry, I had an extra bit in there that I removed before posting the comment, and in the process made it a bit harder to read. This is definitely what I was intending.

diminoten 7y ago

File? No. Get worked/dealt with at all? Yeah. Developers can't feed their children with good vibes.

alrs 7y ago
Pay-to-file is fine, if that's what the authors want.
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  It seems pretty contrary to the spirit of OSS (shared improvement, for example), so I wouldn't call it "fine". "Within the authors available options", maybe. Like -- and pardon my crudity -- you could throw a free party, then poo on the floor, totally allowed but perhaps not within the spirit of parties.

alrs 7y ago

Nowhere, in the tenets of "free software" or "open source", is there any expectation there is any mechanism whatsoever for support or even "filing issues." If an open-source project wants to charge you money to file an issue, that's totally OK and totally in-bounds.

jessaustin 7y ago
Haha that's a fun revenue model.

LoSboccacc 7y ago

it sounds like the perfect monetisation strategy for open source. as long as contributing a fix via a pull request is free opening a ticket to cover for the dev time needed to work on the issue in your behalf seems just fair