Re:Of GitHub and Pull Requests (and comics)
by DanBC on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @11:04AM
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> What's the incentive from the maintainer's point of view to reduce duplication of effort?
The maintainer has a lot of work that needs doing, thus s/he wants to avoid duplication to get that work done. Also, s/he will know how disappointing it is to write software that is not used, and s/he will want to keep programmers happy.
The maintainer has a lot of work that needs doing, thus s/he wants to avoid duplication to get that work done. Also, s/he will know how disappointing it is to write software that is not used, and s/he will want to keep programmers happy.