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Re:The struggles of an open source maintainer by alias_neo on Friday May 17, 2019 @05:09AM (#19937702)
I'm interested in your approach here because I generally disagree with ignoring bug submissions from "drive-by"s.

As a developer, I might have the time to investigate and submit a bug for your code, but at the end of the day, is probably just one more bug in 100 other pieces of code preventing me from writing the code I need to.

Getting familiar with the code of a project you're using, to the extent that your can submit a reasonable PR is a not-insignificant time dedication.

I've found a variety of attitudes from upstream code I've reported to, ranging from "you're wrong" to the bug being fixed and pushed to master within an hour.

I've formed an opinion, amongst the projects I work with, about whom I should give more of my (professional) time to, that usually begins with how receptive they are to a perfectly good bug report which I don't have the (professional) time to fix.

The ones that have proven "pleasant" to work with have made it much easier for me to convince my bosses that their money is well spent giving back.

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