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> maintainers of those features don't have the discipline to see them through. This take makes me sad. There are a lot of reasons why an open source contributo
by RossBencina 2y ago
> maintainers of those features don't have the discipline to see them through.
This take makes me sad. There are a lot of reasons why an open source contributor may not see something through. "Lack of discipline" is only one of them. Others that come to mind are: lack of time, lack of resources, lack of capability (i.e good at writing code, but struggles to navigate the social complexities of sheparding a significant code change), clinically impaired ability to "stay the course" and "see things through" (e.g. ADHD), or maybe it was a collaborative effort and some of the parties dropped out for any of the aforementioned reasons.
I don't have a solution, but it does kinda suck that open source contribution processes are so dependent on instigators being the responsible party to seeing a change all the way through the pipeline.