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A comment on An Open Letter to the FreeBSD Foundation, Core Team, Committers, and Community. Parent comment

Re:An Open Letter to the FreeBSD Foundation, Core Team, Comm... by bakul on Friday November 03, 2023 @07:05AM (#38126962)
If new people are properly (but gently) mentored, they are more likely to do things the “right way” that’ll reduce maintainers’ work from any future contributions from them.
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Re:An Open Letter to the FreeBSD Foundation, Core Team, Comm... by Throw83858 on Friday November 03, 2023 @07:32AM (#38127191)
Not in my experience. It just increases load on maintainers, as beginner moves up on complexity ladder and requires more support.

Plus it is a liability. They may get offended by something, and start a smear campaign.

RTFM is perfect solid answer. It is great repelent on drama. If you take it politely, I will even point you to specific chapters.

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