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Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by rwallace »

To answer the question asked: I've been on the LLVM mailing list for a few months now, and been highly impressed both by the technical quality of the project and by the competence and supportiveness of the people involved.

To address a meta-question: I disagree with the people who claim that you shouldn't contribute to a project for any reason other than intrinsic interest in the product itself. Most people, after all, work for extrinsic reasons; it's a normal part of life. There is nothing wrong with contributing to an open source project to improve your programming skills, boost your resume or pay some of your karmic debt to your species for the gift of your life. These are all valid reasons, and all are flexible regarding the specific nature of the project.

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by dvanduzer »

rwallace wrote: post #141

To answer the question asked: I've been on the LLVM mailing list for a few months now, and been highly impressed both by the technical quality of the project and by the competence and supportiveness of the people involved. To address a meta-question: I disagree with the people who claim that you shouldn't contribute to a project for any reason other than intrinsic interest in the product itself. Most people, after al…

meta-meta-discussion: The question implies an ordering on priorities:

  1) kind
  2) supportive
  3) talented
  4) effective
Granted, the original poster may not have intended it quite that strongly, but it raises an important issue when evaluating open source projects.

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by Manishearth »

BlackAura wrote: post #118
tossaway99999 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my experience the Rust community exhibits a cloaked form of tyranny. On the surface they are very vocal about supporting 'inclusiveness' and 'non-discrimination' and 'tolerance'. Yet they use a rather harsh and subjective code of conduct to control and police the members of their community. Last I knew they even had a moderation team who doled out punishment without any due process nor any oversight of significanc…

Yeah, you're in the wrong. The problem is that you believe that your opinion is the politically neutral one, and it isn't. It's just that the Rust community aren't a bunch of libertarians, which stands out considering how much of the tech community are, and how wildly that skews their perspective. From a point of view outside of the tech industry, the Rust community don't do anything remotely unusual. Even much of th…

FWIW holding differing opinions is fine. We try to keep discussions technical -- and differences in technical opinion are entertained. If a discussion does go into the social or political sphere (e.g. a discussion about the community itself, or the code or conduct), differences in the other opinions are entertained as long as the discussion is civil.

(Well, really, differences in any kind of opinion are entertained as long as the discussion is civil and your opinion isn't actively alienating someone else. "Difference of opinion" isn't something that affects your membership in the community at all, civility is)

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by Manishearth »

jensnockert wrote: post #4

Rust is generally awesome.

Aside: I'm trying to improve the newcomer experience in Rust, so if anyone has any pain points they'd like to mention, or general things which they think could be improved, let me know!

This applies both to Rust the compiler, and Rust the general community.

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by chei0aiV »

richardboegli wrote: post #128

Epic's Unreal Engine 4 team and the community around it is an amazing kind, supportive, friendly and talented group of people. http://unrealengine.com/ Its one of the reasons I got back into game dev and chose to use this engine. The engine itself is state-of-the-art and the improvements per each release is AWESOME. As the engine is a commercial offering that is open source, there are a lot of people involved. This m…

Is Unreal Engine really open source? Doesn't look like it to me.

https://www.unrealengine.com/eula

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by i336_ »

I'd have to say NetSurf (http://netsurf-browser.org).

I'd barely joined the IRC channel and was discussing UI enhancements when it was mentioned I could have my own branch on their private Git repo server if I wanted :D

That was hugely welcoming, in my book!

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