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I dont contribute to open source these days cause of the amount of drama. But what I do is fork and add stuff that I find useful or want. Eventually someone or
by osbzvyzaa 5y ago
I dont contribute to open source these days cause of the amount of drama. But what I do is fork and add stuff that I find useful or want. Eventually someone or the other finds it and if they care enough pulls it in.
I find this much better than convincing open source gatekeepers, who already have their brains overloaded, to accept pull requests.
- chii 5y ago> fork and add stuff that I find useful or want this is the whole premise of open-source originally. If the "fork" is good, either the up-stream takes the changes, or the fork becomes the official one. This will be determined by the users of the program.
- kiba 5y agoI feel free and open source software's promises is still yet unrealized since I don't do these sort of things, and probably neither do most programmers. I know that Free software is about freedom first and foremost not whether we take advantage of these freedoms, and that it has many ancillary effects on our privacy right and keeping old hardware running and all...
- tomxor 5y ago> I dont contribute to open source these days cause of the amount of drama. I've seen the drama (from a distance) in some large FOSS projects, but there is a sea of small one-person or small group projects which are usually a pleasure to contribute to - they usually entail nice simple, small scale, person-to-person interactions, not massive discussions and red taping - it's fun :)