Re:Why we never thank open source maintainers
by usrusr on Thursday November 23, 2017 @01:16PM
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Reorder to make the second bullet the first: people are prone to feeling entitled to their feature after jumping through all those hoops, don't give them the chance to stop reading at that point.
Re:Why we never thank open source maintainers
by icelancer on Thursday November 23, 2017 @10:10PM
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I do this at work in my social media channels and such. I clearly state the rules of engagement and delete 99.999% of communication that doesn't fit the list.
(Sometimes I'll answer communication from those who don't get it right, almost always they are high-profiled individuals you occasionally have to break a rule for. [I also usually regret it. Maybe I'll learn someday.])
Re:Why we never thank open source maintainers
by j_s on Thursday November 23, 2017 @03:38PM
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Can you provide a link to an example of doing this or something similar?
Re:Why we never thank open source maintainers
by subatomic on Thursday November 23, 2017 @10:29PM
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If you mean something like contribution guidelines, then they're everywhere. Here's one of mine as an example: https://github.com/benhowell/react-grid-gallery/blob/master/...
- Feature requests should follow ((list your rules)). All requests that don't follow the rules will be ((closed|ignored))
- ((The maintainers of this project)) will only add new features ((at their leisure)). If you cannot contribute a pull request for ((feature X)), make a feature request ((following the rules on item 1)) and wait. Please do not be impatient.
- If you can implement ((feature X)), please do so and open a pull request.
My personal experience is that dealing with third-party code, merge conflicts and waiting for responses can be even more draining than writing code, so there's that.