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I like to say that "pull requests accepted" is the most polite middle finger you can give someone in the FOSS world.
by andrewstuart2 3y ago
I like to say that "pull requests accepted" is the most polite middle finger you can give someone in the FOSS world.
- parasti 3y agoIt's not a middle finger at all, unless you think refusing to spend your free time on other people's ideas is giving a middle finger.
- janosdebugs 3y agoIn practice, dealing with PRs of potentially questionable quality is still a lot of work. You have to review the code, test the changes, make sure the docs are up to date, and explain to the contributor in the nicest possible way where they messed up. For some of my future projects, I'm even considering not accepting anything but docs and bugfix contributions at all due to the amount of work it takes.
- GabeIsko 3y agoBut that is fine, because someone can still merge patches to a fork of the software. Telling someone to fork is the real middle finger.