Just Wanted to Say Thanks

Re:Just Wanted to Say Thanks by atoav on Sunday December 27, 2020 @01:16PM (#25552990)

While opening an issue might be the lowest effort option I think there are two better options:

1. If you just wanna thank them, write an email

2. If you want to do so publicly, do so on a public channel (e.g. Blog post, HN, youtube channel, etc)

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Re:Just Wanted to Say Thanks by hombre_fatal on Sunday December 27, 2020 @01:20PM (#25553017)

#1 only targets one person.

#2 possibly won’t even be seen by the target.

Opening an issue is seen by the whole team and becomes a place for the community to weigh in. Seems ideal until Github provides better.

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Re:Just Wanted to Say Thanks by judge2020 on Sunday December 27, 2020 @09:01PM (#25556040)

> l until Github provides better.

https://github.blog/changelog/2020-12-08-github-discussions-...

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Re:Just Wanted to Say Thanks by atoav on Monday December 28, 2020 @02:55AM (#25557542)

#1 can be written to more than one person

#2 can be combined with #1 to let them know

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Re:Just Wanted to Say Thanks by darkerside on Sunday December 27, 2020 @01:56PM (#25553313)

So do both, letting them know about #2 in #1?

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Re:Just Wanted to Say Thanks by dmitryminkovsky on Sunday December 27, 2020 @02:01PM (#25553357)

I do that sometimes. I sent an email recently to thank the author of XLD [0], an excellent piece of software hosted on Sourceforge, where I don’t have an account. I wouldn’t say it’s about low effort, so much as not taxing the recipient: with an email a person may feel more compelled to reply than with an opened and immediately closed issue.

[0] https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html

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