What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project
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Re: What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project
#2Kinda frustratingly written by ai
Re: What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project
#3Don't help people who won't help themselves.
Re: What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project
#4I don’t understand. It’s your project, you do what you want and nothing more.
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Re: What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project
#6> someone opens an issue: "how do i install this?"
Honestly, this is a GitHub thing. You wouldn't get that issue on sourcehut, bitbucket or self hosted.
GitHub is the lowest common denominator for users.
Re: What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project
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> is it a gen z thing?
no
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it's been a thing for a long time; just pretend you're reading achewood and everyone is roast beef
Re: What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project
#9I don’t understand. It’s your project, you do what you want and nothing more.
People who give away things like this tend to be good people. As such when someone comes asking for help or new things they are inclined to help.
Your response is where it should go when things get rude, but you don't want to start there.
Re: What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project
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I agree, but you might want to practice what you preach.