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"Usually" doesn't matter. If 100 people drop by to demand the project maintainer make a change or tell them how they can do something to best benefit their com
by cxr 6y ago
"Usually" doesn't matter. If 100 people drop by to demand the project maintainer make a change or tell them how they can do something to best benefit their company and look good by doing it, and 1 person stops by with a high quality bug report, it follows that annoying the latter is how you guarantee that your future lies in dealing with 100 assholes, because person #101 is going to disappear.
> maintainer offering help
That's a generous way to put it.
- cpuguy83 6y agoClearly you have had a bad experience. Sorry to hear that. I will nearly always, unless explicitly asked not to, offer help to work around a bug if it is at all possible. I can't control if someone is upset by this nor can I tell if they will be unless they say as much... but not doing so would be significantly less helpful to a majority of people. So "usually" does matter.
- cxr 6y agoI think you just validated mjw1007's impulse to add the disclaimer. And it's more than a bad experience. It's an entire culture, which leads to the point that mjw1007's comment here is the top voted one for this story, and I've written comments to explain why I stopped filing bugs for projects that host their trackers on GitHub.