The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor
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The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor
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#2I don't contribute anymore because it's almost always a thankless endeavor further humiliated by very rude and irrationally demanding users.
If I don't do something, half the users get upset. If I do it, the other half get upset.
That combined with so many other developers who seem to have dogmatic god complexes and think they know everything while simultaneously having the emotional maturity of an eight year old... it was just too much for me to handle.
Re: The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor
#3I don't contribute anymore because it's almost always a thankless endeavor further humiliated by very rude and irrationally demanding users. If I don't do something, half the users get upset. If I do it, the other half get upset. That combined with so many other developers who seem to have dogmatic god complexes and think they know everything while simultaneously having the emotional maturity of an eight year old...…
I'm sorry this happens. You can cope by having a few "evangelist" users you communicate with to balance the negativity. There's a bias for comment on code that's not perfect. When everything's perfect, no one has anything to say. Open source bring with it an open quorum.
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#4I don't contribute anymore because it's almost always a thankless endeavor further humiliated by very rude and irrationally demanding users. If I don't do something, half the users get upset. If I do it, the other half get upset. That combined with so many other developers who seem to have dogmatic god complexes and think they know everything while simultaneously having the emotional maturity of an eight year old...…
Sorry to hear that, can you point to an example?
Re: The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor
#5I don't contribute anymore because it's almost always a thankless endeavor further humiliated by very rude and irrationally demanding users. If I don't do something, half the users get upset. If I do it, the other half get upset. That combined with so many other developers who seem to have dogmatic god complexes and think they know everything while simultaneously having the emotional maturity of an eight year old...…
Sorry to hear that, can you point to an example?
github.com
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To add something constructive, think of how deamanding people can be in ordinary everday life.
Now think of how demanding they can be when something doesn't quite work how they want.
I've been on both sides of the fence being a demanding user myself and prolific contributor. I could write entire volumes on the cesspool that can be opensource contributing; obviously there's lots of good that comes with it too, good communities, good people.
But open source is an ecosystem like any other really, there are cesspools of obnoxiousness, toxic behavior, and also havens of really insightful and friendly people.
Re: The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor
#6I don't contribute anymore because it's almost always a thankless endeavor further humiliated by very rude and irrationally demanding users. If I don't do something, half the users get upset. If I do it, the other half get upset. That combined with so many other developers who seem to have dogmatic god complexes and think they know everything while simultaneously having the emotional maturity of an eight year old...…
It doesn't have to be thankless - some projects award bounties or contract their contributors (see https://algora.io). Similarly OP could compensate the maintainers for their help updating the software.
Re: The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor
#7This is a great blog! Great points about just running your own fork if needed and testing your own patch in your own system for a while. I would be very happy as a maintainer if someone put in that much effort for a fix.
Re: The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor
#8I don't contribute anymore because it's almost always a thankless endeavor further humiliated by very rude and irrationally demanding users. If I don't do something, half the users get upset. If I do it, the other half get upset. That combined with so many other developers who seem to have dogmatic god complexes and think they know everything while simultaneously having the emotional maturity of an eight year old...…
I'm sorry this happens. You can cope by having a few "evangelist" users you communicate with to balance the negativity. There's a bias for comment on code that's not perfect. When everything's perfect, no one has anything to say. Open source bring with it an open quorum.
Github in particular has no way of stopping drive-by comments and issues, right?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry this happens. You can cope by having a few "evangelist" users you communicate with to balance the negativity. There's a bias for comment on code that's not perfect. When everything's perfect, no one has anything to say. Open source bring with it an open quorum.
Github in particular has no way of stopping drive-by comments and issues, right?
Disable Github issues and use a mailing list instead.
Re: The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry this happens. You can cope by having a few "evangelist" users you communicate with to balance the negativity. There's a bias for comment on code that's not perfect. When everything's perfect, no one has anything to say. Open source bring with it an open quorum.
Github in particular has no way of stopping drive-by comments and issues, right?
You do not have to use Github.