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We need more of this. We need more of everything in OSS (funding, testing, support, etc) but the simple "thank you for your time, your efforts, your well crafte
by gigatexal 6y ago
We need more of this. We need more of everything in OSS (funding, testing, support, etc) but the simple "thank you for your time, your efforts, your well crafted PR, your project that helps me accomplish X, Y, Z..." go a long, long way. I try to do this at work. Anytime I get help on something big or small I always say thanks, thanks for taking the time, thanks for explaining it, etc, because I know they're busy just as I am.
To all the people out there working on code that we all use and build on top off thank you!
- lytefm 6y agoAbsolutely. I've maintained a fork of an abandoned OSS project mainly because I needed it for myself and it was easy to just do it on GitHub. Turns out some folks noticed, starred the repo, used the code and someone opened a „Thank you” - Issue earlier this year. That was a main reason for me to actually publish the code on NPM, work towards a stable version and write some documentation at some point.
- gigatexal 6y agoThat’s awesome! Thanks for doing that.