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Certainly, but there was motivation to do that in the past. My patch would probably line up with the rest of the code in the direction that they desired and the
by arjie 2mo ago
Certainly, but there was motivation to do that in the past. My patch would probably line up with the rest of the code in the direction that they desired and the cost of fork maintenance would have pushed me to upstream in a way acceptable to maintainers.
- geraneum 2mo agoI find it hard to believe that this is the main motivation for most who contributors to OSS. Do you have a reference, research or poll that corroborate this? You’re vastly overestimating the value of these “fixes” that now go to private forks, because maintainers also have access to LLMs and can prompt, probably better than a drive by fix since they have better understanding and context of the codebase. Therefore I believe, in most cases, keeping those fixes to private forks is not a noticeable loss for the OSS projects.