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Open source authors should be getting more "thank you" messages rather than constant barrage of issues and complaints :) Have an excellent day and successful y
by fraktl 7y ago
Open source authors should be getting more "thank you" messages rather than constant barrage of issues and complaints :)
Have an excellent day and successful year!
- mrec 7y agoIt never occurred to me before, but it'd be great for GitHub et al to have a way to leave kudos and thank-you notes. As things stand, the only affordances are for leaving issues and complaints, so it's not surprising that that's what get left.
- shepmaster 7y agoI’ve seen and used issues as “thank yous”. As a developer, I don’t mind this misuse of the issues :-)
- bloopernova 7y agoI've done that a few times, and always felt anxiety before hitting "submit". So far I've had mostly good reactions to it, but I've also had it ignored and the ticket silently closed.
- B1FF_PSUVM 7y agoDevs could allow a "this software is too good for us" issue, keep it unresolved and see how many would pile on ... (A really cheeky issue tracker could have this built in as issue 0.)
- katbyte 7y agoIgnored and silent closed is not the same as negatively commented on and closed. Thank you issues while clutter would be my favourite off topic issue to close.
- krick 7y agoProbably depends on the person. I would kinda mind that.
- eepp 7y agoStars?
- dystroy 7y agoWhen devs give a link to their twitter account, their chat, etc. they certainly wouldn't mind reading a kind personal comment from time to time.
- efreak 7y agoI'd be happy to use a first-party system designed for simply saying why I like something. However I'm not willing to create a Twitter account just so I can thank someone when we've never met (and likely never will), and are likely never to speak to each other again. Same deal with signing into other services through GitHub (like gitter), that might start sending me emails (when signing in via GitHub, the service gets your email address; so far as I know, gitter doesn't use it for anything, but other services might).
- irrational 7y agoIsn’t that what stars are for? Not a note, but I wouldn’t Star a repository I didn’t appreciate.
- mrec 7y agoUnclear, I think. I tend to use GitHub stars as bookmarks, which implies interest but not necessarily hearty approval. I don't think you can generalize here; it's like Twitter, where some people use Likes to remember all-time favourites and some people use them as an "I've read this" checkbox.
- NetOpWibby 7y agoI also use stars as bookmarks. A dedicated "appreciate" button would be nice.
- gunnihinn 7y agoF
- derefr 7y agoBesides the thing sibling commenters mentioned about GitHub Stars acting like bookmarks, I also feel that GitHub Stars are more intended to be used to indicate interest in the source code itself—which is a bit different from indicating interest in the product you get by compiling said source code. I might Star e.g. Postgres (yeah, I know, not their official repo) because someone told me that it's an example of good, elegant code, and I would like to study it. But that doesn't mean that I'm a Postgres user, let alone an adoring fan. I'm starring the code.
- digitalsanctum 7y agoThe new GitHub Sponsors program is great for donating to an open source author but it requires the author to sign up.
- aerovistae 7y agoWhat a great idea! I submitted it to Github's feedback form.
- derefr 7y agoI could have sworn that GitHub's "emoji reactions" thing applied to a repo's Releases, but I guess I was mistaken. It'd be a nice addition.