Re:Open Source is Not About You
by dmitriid on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @04:54AM
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How is this different from having a pull request that will go unmerged for potentially years? You still need to maintain your fork etc.
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So itβs worth it for you to have other people fix your problem for you (for free!), but not for you to do it yourself?
Re:Open Source is Not About You
by threatofrain on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @10:04AM
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No, he's saying a person who is thinking about results for the Clojure community wouldn't take things that way. Not everyone wishes to fork the community. Politicians step down from issues just because the timing is wrong and would be factious, not because the issue is wrong.
Also the person in question is also a well-received volunteer, which is why this is getting traction to begin with, which is why Rich Hickey would even take the time to tell someone that they aren't worth the time of the very response they're reading.
Re:Open Source is Not About You
by andyfingerhut on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @04:51PM
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"which is why Rich Hickey would even take the time to tell someone that they aren't worth the time of the very response they're reading"
I think you are misrepresenting what Rich wrote. He said you are not "entitled" to a response. That is not an evaluation of someone's worth, but a statement about what they are owed, or not owed.