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It's sort of telling that you refuse to put any effort into showing anyone you can at least put together a crappy implementation to demonstrate understanding an

by ugexe 11y ago

It's sort of telling that you refuse to put any effort into showing anyone you can at least put together a crappy implementation to demonstrate understanding and contribute back to the same knowledge space (beginner knowledge is knowledge) you wish to extract from. The demand for the highest quality code for what is essentially begging is also not becoming. Even contributing a terrible implementation would tickle people's motivation button (so they can teach someone without building your entire project, show they are measurable better than someone, etc) "Beggars can't be choosers"

andrewstuart 11y ago
I don't see why I shouldn't ask if anyone is willing to help. 1: it's open source snd presumably would be committed to the libgit2 project. 2: it's likely to be useful to others 3: it's central, critical code that isn't well suited to beginners. Of course it should be quality code, it's responsible for storing data. 4: it would strongly benefit from the eye of a Postgres expert, which I am not 5: I do not have money to hire developers 6: I write open source code too so I contribute my time to the public
- scrollaway 11y ago
  Don't let the haters fool you - they're the same guys who told dropbox that they didn't see the point of their services over sharing usb flash drives. This is a good idea. Other people could abuse it but this is certainly not abuse, any more than it would be to just file a feature request as an issue on a project. Hope it comes through.
  - ugexe 11y ago
    This comparison is lost on me. What do the drop box naysayers have to do with people submitting code requests?
    - grandalf 11y ago
      there are just some people who initially hate nearly every good idea
- ugexe 11y ago
  No one said you had to run your for-profit idea on whatever code you come up with. There is something to be said about someone who asks for something but isn't willing to put in the work personally (or only the work they want to do).
marcosscriven 11y ago
Reminds me of the 'Stone Soup' proverb. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup

by ugexe 11y ago

andrewstuart 11y ago

I don't see why I shouldn't ask if anyone is willing to help. 1: it's open source snd presumably would be committed to the libgit2 project. 2: it's likely to be useful to others 3: it's central, critical code that isn't well suited to beginners. Of course it should be quality code, it's responsible for storing data. 4: it would strongly benefit from the eye of a Postgres expert, which I am not 5: I do not have money to hire developers 6: I write open source code too so I contribute my time to the public

scrollaway 11y ago
Don't let the haters fool you - they're the same guys who told dropbox that they didn't see the point of their services over sharing usb flash drives. This is a good idea. Other people could abuse it but this is certainly not abuse, any more than it would be to just file a feature request as an issue on a project. Hope it comes through.
- ugexe 11y ago
  This comparison is lost on me. What do the drop box naysayers have to do with people submitting code requests?
  - grandalf 11y ago
    there are just some people who initially hate nearly every good idea
ugexe 11y ago
No one said you had to run your for-profit idea on whatever code you come up with. There is something to be said about someone who asks for something but isn't willing to put in the work personally (or only the work they want to do).

marcosscriven 11y ago

Reminds me of the 'Stone Soup' proverb. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup