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Re:Slow Software by RayDonnelly on Friday November 23, 2018 @04:05PM (#18518909)
I respectfully disagree with you. I wasted perhap 10 hours of my life or more on this PR (pointlessly rebasing it a few times). 95 other PRs are outstanding. There are many ways to improve this situation. I pointed two of them out:

    1. Declare that you won't accept (or even review) them, preferably at the top of README.md *
    2. Give a second person merge status.
I have some empathy for the maintainer but I also have empathy for the prospective contributors who spent a chunk of their free time working on https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pulls

I've done my bit here to stop wasting people's time globally, I don't consider a maintainer's time more valuable than a contributor's time. That's elitest nonsense.

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/1284

* The likely side-effect is a unblessed fork (or people not wasting their time, or if they do, well, they didn't read the README.md and cannot be too annoyed at anyone but themselves).

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Re:Slow Software by ggreer on Friday November 23, 2018 @04:22PM (#18518982)
Come on dude, I just want to enjoy my long weekend. Please stop bothering me by creating spurious issues on my GitHub repo.
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Re:Slow Software by RayDonnelly on Friday November 23, 2018 @04:29PM (#18519014)
OK sure, but would you consider merging one PR that explains that people should not expect PRs to get reviewed? I'm happy to do the work if you'll review and merge it.

That way we can avoid unfortunate incidents such as this in future.

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