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Allowing people to help also takes time...there's a non-trivial management effort involved...one that's too frequently forgotten about in these discussions.
by bleepleblopple 5y ago
Allowing people to help also takes time...there's a non-trivial management effort involved...one that's too frequently forgotten about in these discussions.
- jckahn 5y agoThis is very true. Even when collaborating with very skilled engineers, it takes a lot of time and energy to respond to ideas, questions, and review PRs. It’s like a regular programming job to a certain degree, but you’re typically not paid for doing it.
- cheph 5y agoSoftware can be shitty garbage in many ways. It can be shitty garbage by having lots of bugs, and it can be shitty garbage by having a maintainer which cares more about bottlenecking all changes than about the future of a project. But everyone is free to make shitty software, so have at it.
- account42 5y agoWow, calling people's software shitty because they care enough about it to want to vet contributions?