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There’s a PCRE2 issue that Philip created last week, and which I submitted here, but it didn’t get much traction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40657607
by fanf2 2y ago
There’s a PCRE2 issue that Philip created last week, and which I submitted here, but it didn’t get much traction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40657607 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40657607
This LWN article is helping to spread the word.
(I worked with Philip before he retired.)
- arp242 2y agoYeah, that's exactly the kind of stuff very few people are going to see. Even this HN post here is seen by relatively few people. Also, about 90% of the people respond will fall through. I'm sure people say "yes" with the best of intentions, but saying "yes" in a wave of enthusiasm is easy, and then spending a lot of hours on it ... not so much. My favourite example is someone who said "yes, I'll help maintain", was added to the GitHub repo, made a new issue with a long plan on how to deal with the many open issues, and ... was never seen again. Never actually dealt with any of the open issues. I'm sure this was done with the best of intentions (and their profile said they're a student, so I don't want to judge harshly), but this was a rather marked example that made me laugh.