"show me the code" people need to understand the other side: I used to be one. In practice, it simply means advance payment, and advance payment scams should ma

"show me the code" people need to understand the other side: I used to be one. In practice, it simply means advance payment, and advance payment scams should make it clear why people are worried about it. Just as maintainers do, contributors do not want to waste their time. If people talk, without code, about say dns-01 preferrable to http-01, that is because they aren't sure sending a patch to add dns-01 support without discussion would be merged. As an OpenBSD developer, you have such visibility and I believe you, but it is often very unclear to outside contributors whether something will be merged if implemented. Saying "show me the code" to such discussion in practice is interpreted as "I am not sure whether we want this or not, but if you do the implementation, it is your timee wasted, not mine". The reason is, if you interpret it as "show me the code and you will be welcome", your guess is often wrong. After a couple of such experiences myself, these days I never do advance code payment. Always discussion first.