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I think it's unfair to call the OSS project leaders "charity workers" and not the contributors. Either way, if OSS project leaders have so little free time, wh
by j_baker 14y ago
I think it's unfair to call the OSS project leaders "charity workers" and not the contributors. Either way, if OSS project leaders have so little free time, why wouldn't they spend more of it fostering developers into being more productive members of the project? This is what baffles me most about the situation. It's a lose-lose for everyone when a project leader acts like a jerk.
- tinco 14y agoI think it is unfair to call "contributors" charity workers when all they do is cause headaches for the oss project leaders. The project leader won't be a jerk to you if you make a nice well-tested, style-adhering commit that only addresses a single issue without breaking other code. Don't think for a second 'occasional contributors' combined efforts even come close to the contribution of even a single project leader.
- TheZenPsycho 14y agoThe Mythical Man Month. When it comes to software, uniformly accepting and mentoring newcomers into a project does not bring uniformly good return- and in many or most cases, will result in NEGATIVE return, that is, a bad developer can cause progress to move backward, making more work for the other developers- both in working around the badness, and in time spent educating the newbie.