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And yet you apparently have learned to walk, despite the ground meeting you quite rudely here and there. Apply the same here. True, assholes do exist. If they

And yet you apparently have learned to walk, despite the ground meeting you quite rudely here and there. Apply the same here. True, assholes do exist. If they didn't, the modern human world likely wouldn't be a shithole, but yet here we are. But as you demand people to extend their goodwill and charitable assumptions to you, take a moment to do the same to them. It might very well be that your contribution is taking the project in a direction they don't want to pursue. It might be that what you are contributing is the failed idea #420 from a year ago. It might be that what you are contributing is what has caused bug #666 which took many months to debug and fix. It might be more often than not that you blatantly fail to do as Romans do when in Rome. Maybe young people are exactly the same as they were 20 years ago, but it's my perception that thanks to flashy media abound, attention spans are indeed shortening, and demands for instant gratification are bigger now than they used to be. But this is not how you do anything of value. Maybe spend some time reading the room before rushing in and then complaining about rude comments.

shortrounddev2 2y ago
> It might very well be that your contribution is taking the project in a direction they don't want to pursue. It might be that what you are contributing is the failed idea #420 from a year ago. It might be that what you are contributing is what has caused bug #666 which took many months to debug and fix. It might be more often than not that you blatantly fail to do as Romans do when in Rome. These are all factors as to why people don't contribute to open source software: the amount of institutional, cultural, and technical knowledge required is a major impediment to onboarding new developers, and the OSS community is memed for its poor interpersonal skills (especially a hostility to those lose skilled). I could spend some time becoming acclimated to a project's human factors with all their outdated forms of communication and idiosyncratic around the build systems and PR procedures, or I could just work on my own greenfield project which is more rewarding and less fraught with interpersonal dynamics
- WesolyKubeczek 2y ago
  How do you even travel to countries with cultures vastly different from your own? Do you expect them to accommodate you every time at the cost of having to bend their longstanding tradition?
  - beej71 2y ago
    Yes, I travel. No. And I never travel to Dubai.

shortrounddev2 2y ago

> It might very well be that your contribution is taking the project in a direction they don't want to pursue. It might be that what you are contributing is the failed idea #420 from a year ago. It might be that what you are contributing is what has caused bug #666 which took many months to debug and fix. It might be more often than not that you blatantly fail to do as Romans do when in Rome. These are all factors as to why people don't contribute to open source software: the amount of institutional, cultural, and technical knowledge required is a major impediment to onboarding new developers, and the OSS community is memed for its poor interpersonal skills (especially a hostility to those lose skilled). I could spend some time becoming acclimated to a project's human factors with all their outdated forms of communication and idiosyncratic around the build systems and PR procedures, or I could just work on my own greenfield project which is more rewarding and less fraught with interpersonal dynamics

WesolyKubeczek 2y ago
How do you even travel to countries with cultures vastly different from your own? Do you expect them to accommodate you every time at the cost of having to bend their longstanding tradition?
- beej71 2y ago
  Yes, I travel. No. And I never travel to Dubai.