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>If he's overwhelmed, why would he go to the extra effort of reverting the commit? For a possible answer to this (admittedly rhetorical) question, please re-re
by jnbiche 13y ago
>If he's overwhelmed, why would he go to the extra effort of reverting the commit?
For a possible answer to this (admittedly rhetorical) question, please re-read my comment, particularly the lines "...doesn't want to encourage this kind of contribution to the project."
Some developers cleverly attach their name to famous project "Contributors" lists by making small grammar changes to the documentation, and then put it on their CV. In my mind, that's actually not a bad thing, since documentation is improved and everyone benefits. But I can understand that some developers may not think that such recognition is deserved.
He may have reverted because it might have appeared that Isaac was trying to bullishly overrule him in violation of project guidelines (I'm not sure whether that's actually true, but it may have appeared as such).
- mcv 13y agoExcluding contributors simply because you want to feel like you're part of some exclusive group, is possibly even more harmful to open source projects than insisting on gender-exclusive language. People who improve the code or documentation, even if it's in some really minor way you don't care about, are vital to any open source project. If you exclude them, you're voting for your project to remain small and irrelevant.