Re:Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video...
by pwdisswordfish4 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @07:15AM
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I had basically the same experience. I even got requests for functionality that was already there, as if the maintainers didn't even read or test the patch. There are a number of pull requests of mine that have been waiting open for years, ready to be merged.
Maybe I'll have more luck with this fork.
As someone who has tried to contribute to YouTube-dl in the past, the absolute disinterest I received and complete lack of follow up on simple bug-fixes caused me to completely dismiss YouTube-dl as a FOSS project worthy of my time.
And I say that as someone who sends PRs to projects I’ve visited once, over tiny things like typos or lack of installation/build instructions in the readme.
Some of my PRs received a crazy all-or-nothing treatment, asking me to fix huge, long-standing bugs nobody had fixed for years, instead of accepting a 2-line diff which did a provider-specific workaround which solved a real bug, but seemingly not in the “right” way.
Completely toxic and hostile.
That someone has started a community-fork with a more welcoming and pragmatic approach does not surprise me in the least.