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I used to raise bugs with as much information as possible to reproduce or provide patches for the fix myself but these days more often than not I do neither. I
by PaulKeeble 4y ago
I used to raise bugs with as much information as possible to reproduce or provide patches for the fix myself but these days more often than not I do neither.
I have found that a lot of open source projects really don't want any form of feedback or contribution at all and you sometimes just get abuse for even trying to help. I usually check the history of issues and pull requests to see if there is any chance its worthwhile doing them, more often than not it isn't. Definitely check beforehand how the project usually behaves before applying any effort because the bulk of them are not going to accept anything you might do if you aren't a committer.
- Handytinge 4y agoI submit PRs. If the author doesn't want them, that's fine, I'll keep them in my own fork. If they do, win/win.
- yc20220630123 4y agoOne of the very funny things I've found is that proprietary freeware devs are often much more receptive to feedback than open source authors. Rick Brewster (paint.net dev) for example has responded quickly to all of my emails, I also remember Discord being very responsive back in the day (2017-2018), no idea what they're like now.