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That's certainly important for some users for some dependencies. But most users cannot and should not contribute to most of their dependencies. The overhead of
by fauigerzigerk 7y ago
That's certainly important for some users for some dependencies. But most users cannot and should not contribute to most of their dependencies.
The overhead of reviewing all those contributions would be enormous, and the effort required to make a quality contribution that doesn't waste other people's time would be impossible to justify in most cases.
- marcus_holmes 7y agoalso getting involved in a project also means dealing with its politics and drama, too. And the entitlement, criticism and blame from users. and in a lot of cases, it would be less effort to write the functionality you actually need (and the tests for it) than writing the tests for an entire OS project (and then dealing with all the other crap).
- lonelappde 7y agoPeople say this and then you find out it means that they brag about reducing their dependencies by 1%. How big the code base for your entire system. We're not shipping 128kB cartridges anymore.