Why I'm Frequently Absent from Open Source

Re:Why I'm Frequently Absent from Open Source by kens on Monday February 27, 2017 @02:26AM (#13742504)

If you've got pull requests you never get around to handling, I recommend the "Pull request hack"†: give the requestor commit access. This has worked well for me, and reduced my stress, and gained me a contributor who looks after the project much better than I was.

† https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5357417

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Re:Why I'm Frequently Absent from Open Source by dubberx on Monday February 27, 2017 @09:48AM (#13744567)

> give the requestor commit access.

Why wouldn't a requestor just fork the project and continue from there?

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Re:Why I'm Frequently Absent from Open Source by Flenser on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:52AM (#13752808)

They've already forked the project in order to make the pull request. The pull request shows that they'd like to also fix the issue for all the users of the original repo.

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Re:Why I'm Frequently Absent from Open Source by kevinr on Monday February 27, 2017 @03:03AM (#13742678)

I cannot upvote this enough.

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