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Their software, their workflow. "Bend to it or pick something else" seems entirely fine to me.
by owenmarshall 3y ago
Their software, their workflow. "Bend to it or pick something else" seems entirely fine to me.
- _zoltan_ 3y agothis is not really true for open source, I think. since it's collaborative I think it's fair to expect people to be able to open a GitHub link
- owenmarshall 3y agoI run OpenBSD on most of my systems. The OpenBSD development team collaborates using cvs instead of git because it fits their workflow well. If I wanted to collaborate with them, I'd use cvs too – and if I wanted to move them to git I'd do it after becoming a core contributor, not before. If I'm going to send bug reports & patches here and there, I'm going to do it in a way that makes it easy for Theo and team to review. This is very much a Chesterton's fence topic, I think. Linux developers have settled on a workflow that works for them, and if you want to get time from the people who are doing the bulk of the work it's fair to expect you to work within their requests.
- rblatz 3y agoThis dude literally spent days doing their work. Rebooted Linux nearly 300k to find their fuckup. Then they have the infantile reaction to complain about clicking a link?
- snapcaster 3y agoyou're wrong. instead you should adopt the standards of the group you're attempting to join. Getting "tourist who complains about customs of country they visit" vibes from this comment
- mulmen 3y agoIt’s a gitlab link, not github. And it isn’t reasonable in this context. GitHub hosts a lot of open source projects but it is not the only place where open source happens. That's kinda the point of open source, and especially of git. Git itself is a satellite project of the Linux kernel. It can work without the web at all. That someone EEE’d it so hard that even Microsoft couldn’t resist is no reason to expect the kernel devs to change their workflow.