Terraform is currently not reviewing community pull requests

Re:Terraform is currently not reviewing community pull requests by watwut on Monday September 06, 2021 @03:16AM (#28431274)

There is such a thing as open source project with "pull requests welcome" in readme and whole elaborate "how to contribute" wiki chapter. Except when you follow that wiki to the T, it still ends up ignored because no one is reading pull requests. It is not that these contributions are going out of nowhere, from clueless people who dont realized maintainers dont want pull requests. Pretty often maintenners wanted pull requests, made sure to promote the option and then found themselves unable/unwilling to merge them in.

I am not saying projects must merge in pull requests. I am saying they should not have "please contribute it is welcome" messages in their readmes.

And on second plan, there are those campaigns to make people contribute. And shaming of companies/people for freeloading if they dont contribute - especially here on HN. Again, if then people conclude that contribution is something expected, it is not only their own fault.

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Re:Terraform is currently not reviewing community pull requests by nerdponx on Monday September 06, 2021 @10:23AM (#28433939)

This, big time. It's a matter of setting expectations. If you don't want PRs, don't make it seem like you want PRs.

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Re:Terraform is currently not reviewing community pull requests by angelzen on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:09PM (#28452202)

Early in the project the maintainer(s) are super-excited of their new baby. Later on they burn out and move on to do different things. The PR guides are written in the first stage, while PRs get ignored in the latter.

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