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That little snippet doesn't quite provide enough historical context for me to agree or disagree with it.
by creesch 2y ago
That little snippet doesn't quite provide enough historical context for me to agree or disagree with it.
- cxr 2y agoHuh?
- creesch 2y agoThe thing you linked starts with > The phrase "patches welcome" has come not to be. Which I am already missing context for to make sense out of. Where was this phrase used, by who? I get a general idea of what it is about and what the intention is but it isn't all that clear as I am missing the surrounding context.
- cxr 2y agoK. To start with, it's been a common phrase in open source since before "open source" was invented and fairly self-explanatory; it means what it means on its face. Even if that weren't the case and someone were just encountering it for the first time in 2024, a 2-second attempt to get acquainted will not leave anyone wondering. There are 200 results for "patches welcome" on HN: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=5&prefix=false&query=%22patches%20welcome%22&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=5&prefix=false&qu...> The top results on Google for the phrase "patches welcome", most being posts written around the 4-, 5-, 6-year mark after the post I linked to, are all based on the same premise: "patches welcome" is (a) common, and (b) not what anyone wants to hear. <https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22patches%20welcome%22 https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22patches%20welcome...> E.g.: > "Patches Welcome". We've all seen it in the Open Source community. Nothing makes me angrier than these two words. <https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2016-02-17-patches-welcome/ https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2016-02-17-patches-welcome/> But I'm also missing some context here; my "Huh?" was rather more directed at the part of the remark that says "[...] for me to agree or disagree with it".