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Problem is picking up those gratis things from the table has a cost to the maintainer. And sometimes those gratis things are worth less than that cost. Multiply
by Mountain_Skies 6y ago
Problem is picking up those gratis things from the table has a cost to the maintainer. And sometimes those gratis things are worth less than that cost. Multiply this hundreds of times and the cost to the maintainer for picking up free things can quickly add up.
- wildmanx 6y agoAnd that's why the maintainer is free to ignore them, if they choose to. They should not be hanged for prioritizing their time. Others can pick all that up. Fork the project, use the reported issues and proposed patches, whatnot. Accusing the maintainer of being arrogant for ignoring contributions is as wrong as accusing the contributors for wasting somebody's time. These recent open source related threads on HN are quite an eye-opener for me how much misunderstood the whole concept is. In that concept, nobody is committing or promising any of their time or energy, so should not get judged for it either. Neither maintainers nor users nor contributors.