Contributing to open-source should be required, like jury duty
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Re: Contributing to open-source should be required, like jury duty
#2ha ha, in a lot of cases it is "required," but people keeping choosing not to use the software where the contributions are "required"
Re: Contributing to open-source should be required, like jury duty
#3Looking at the quality of most “contributions” - “hey I added a bunch of unnecessary ai slob to your readme” - oh god please no
Re: Contributing to open-source should be required, like jury duty
#4Should it be mandatory also for the maintainers to accept these contributions? Every project would degrade into pure entropy.
Re: Contributing to open-source should be required, like jury duty
#5Sure but the real problem are the companies that consume, not just the developers. A lot of developers would love to contribute back, but companies put schedule pressures and have limited interest in contributing back.
Companies actually want a kind of vendor relationship, but they don’t want to pay any money.
Devs want something dev focused, and open source is usually code for being dev focused.
I don’t think either truly wants actual “open source”
Re: Contributing to open-source should be required, like jury duty
#6ok, if they pay to train me up.
Re: Contributing to open-source should be required, like jury duty
#7Make it required to see AI generated PRs and README updates
Re: Contributing to open-source should be required, like jury duty
#8Weird that this onus is being put on the developers, and not on their employers.
I constantly use FOSS for the commercial gain... Of someone who isn't me.
Re: Contributing to open-source should be required, like jury duty
#9Software developers (plural) have not made their fortunes on open source, just big companies (who should obviously be paying, not me.)
Re: Contributing to open-source should be required, like jury duty
#10Looking at the quality of most “contributions” - “hey I added a bunch of unnecessary ai slob to your readme” - oh god please no
Always look at the bottom of the page for what is surprisingly often the most insightful comment.
Addendum: Particularly when the forum has gone sour.