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Some open source authors are also annoyed by: 5) Reporters not spending hours getting familiar with the build system to verify the bug in origin/master, even t
by l0b0 6y ago
Some open source authors are also annoyed by:
5) Reporters not spending hours getting familiar with the build system to verify the bug in origin/master, even though it's been there in the three last stable releases.
6) Not providing a patch.
7) Not using the appropriate jargon for everything.
Entitlement is very much a thing (on both sides of the fence), but these are going to be extremely off-putting for anyone who is only ever going to be an end user.
- sidlls 6y agoMaybe those OSS authors ought to document their software better. A pithy README.md with a toy example nobody would ever actually learn anything from isn't documentation. Maintaining a proper changelog with links to relevant issues/tickets isn't that hard, but it's rarely employed.