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What? It was already fixed. You just need to update. There's no need for the world's top fintech programmers to hack it out on a mountaintop somewhere. Also, t
by phendrenad2 5y ago
What? It was already fixed. You just need to update. There's no need for the world's top fintech programmers to hack it out on a mountaintop somewhere.
Also, the reason the maintainers are rushing to fix it is: they're worried about losing "market share". Having been in open-source circles for a long time, maintainers care GREATLY about how many users they have. They just like watching their download stats go up every year. Even if it beings them no financial rewards. It's a sort of addiction.
- bshipp 5y ago> maintainers care GREATLY about how many users they have. They do. Until they don't. That inevitable day when they get yelled at in a github issue thread by a user who didn't bother reading the documentation, while staring at their kid in the living room playing video games and start wondering to themselves "why am I doing this hobby in my spare time again?" Mild dopamine hits to affirmation-addicted programmers is not the sturdiest foundation upon which to build enterprise-grade software libraries.
- manquer 5y agoPartly it is because it looks good on the resume, improves job prospects, help build a consulting business or get keynote offers or write books etc. Many serious contributors eye all these aveneues to leverage their popularity, it is just not affirmation, it is also ability to monetize it