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Sadly in recent years I've seen a number of neglected Debian packages picked up by people who just wanted to pad their resume and say "I'm a Debian maintainer!"
by TwoNineFive 6y ago
Sadly in recent years I've seen a number of neglected Debian packages picked up by people who just wanted to pad their resume and say "I'm a Debian maintainer!". This usually has ended badly with the new maintainer not caring about the userbase. They close all open bugs without having fixed anything, and break shit wholesale just so they can say it builds.
Please don't pick up a package just because you think it would be cool to be a maintainer. If you are not invested in the well-being of the userbase, you will get called out.
- rrdharan 6y ago> If you are not invested in the well-being of the userbase, you will get called out. The person doing this might get called out, but will the negative consequences of that calling out outweigh the resume padding benefit they experience? If not, then I would expect this to keep happening.