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> This is the way it works. It needs to change. Well, it’s on you to set your boundaries. "Feel free to submit a PR" works wonders.

matheusmoreira 3y ago
Be careful what you wish for. Someone will eventually take you up on that challenge. The responsibility will lie with you when they do make that pull request. Is that something you actually want? I gotta ask because it seems there's lots of people out there who are saying that but don't actually want it to happen. Look I get it, it's a great line, it instantly weeds out anyone who can't code, it even filters out those who can code but don't actually care enough about your project. If you choose that route though, you better be prepared for the day when the fabled PR finally arrives in your inbox. You told them to do it themselves if they wanted it so bad, they went and did it. Even though you know your code base and could probably have implemented it 10 times faster than they did, they labored over it to spare you the trouble instead of begging for the feature in your issue tracker. You asked to see the code, you got the code. Now the buck stops with you. Seriously, if you say this, be ready to engage with whomever does show up with a patch. Unless they send you literal irredeemable garbage, the least they are entitled to is your sincere peer review. Nothing's worse than putting in effort into learning somebody else's project and writing the patch, only to not be given the time of day, or worse. I'd rather have a Linus Torvalds type take a big shit on the patch in public than be ignored like that. Someone who does that is at least treating you like a peer.
- rrr_oh_man 3y ago
  I like (and upvoted) how you replied, but disagree with you. What's the problem, honestly? Telling someone that you don't like / want their code / direction / feature? It just takes a modicum of emotional maturity to do that.

matheusmoreira 3y ago

Be careful what you wish for. Someone will eventually take you up on that challenge. The responsibility will lie with you when they do make that pull request. Is that something you actually want? I gotta ask because it seems there's lots of people out there who are saying that but don't actually want it to happen. Look I get it, it's a great line, it instantly weeds out anyone who can't code, it even filters out those who can code but don't actually care enough about your project. If you choose that route though, you better be prepared for the day when the fabled PR finally arrives in your inbox. You told them to do it themselves if they wanted it so bad, they went and did it. Even though you know your code base and could probably have implemented it 10 times faster than they did, they labored over it to spare you the trouble instead of begging for the feature in your issue tracker. You asked to see the code, you got the code. Now the buck stops with you. Seriously, if you say this, be ready to engage with whomever does show up with a patch. Unless they send you literal irredeemable garbage, the least they are entitled to is your sincere peer review. Nothing's worse than putting in effort into learning somebody else's project and writing the patch, only to not be given the time of day, or worse. I'd rather have a Linus Torvalds type take a big shit on the patch in public than be ignored like that. Someone who does that is at least treating you like a peer.

rrr_oh_man 3y ago
I like (and upvoted) how you replied, but disagree with you. What's the problem, honestly? Telling someone that you don't like / want their code / direction / feature? It just takes a modicum of emotional maturity to do that.