Terraform is currently not reviewing community pull requests

Re:Terraform is currently not reviewing community pull requests by strken on Sunday September 05, 2021 @11:57PM (#28430072)

The overhead of working out where the people who maintain the code are is usually higher than just fixing the bug I found. This is doubly true if the bug is bad enough that I need to temporarily fork the repo to deal with it.

In the same way that the maintainers don't have an obligation to review my PR, I don't have an obligation to go find them and learn how to use IRC/bugzilla/mattermost/mailing lists/smoke signals/yodelling to communicate with them with the exact secret handshake to get a review. I can just throw a PR out there, point our code at my fork, rebase it whenever they make changes, and otherwise ignore their requirements until they either fix the bug themselves or merge my code.

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Re:Terraform is currently not reviewing community pull requests by sockpuppet_12 on Monday September 06, 2021 @05:51PM (#28438505)

In usual circumstances, free work is generally appreciated. But I imagine it's a bit different with code, as most people prefer writing code to reading it.

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Re:Terraform is currently not reviewing community pull requests by strken on Monday September 06, 2021 @06:28PM (#28438820)

In the case of a bug in software you didn't write, you can spend hours reading and debugging a foreign codebase, and end up writing nothing but a one-line fix and a ten-line test case.

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