Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time

Re:Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic... by deadbabe on Saturday January 13, 2024 @01:38PM (#38983033)

What’s more amazing to me is that for open source projects like this where anyone can contribute, people would rather complain about the lack of a screenshot instead of submitting a pull request adding a screenshot to the README.

You could probably become a very prolific contributor just by adding a screenshot to every such repo you come across.

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Re:Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic... by Kharacternyk on Saturday January 13, 2024 @02:59PM (#38983915)

I imagine a lot of such pull requests wouldn't be merged.

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Re:Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic... by deadbabe on Saturday January 13, 2024 @04:17PM (#38984666)

I submitted one, it may never be merged, but at least now I can say I tried. And isn’t that what open source is about?

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Re:Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic... by Kharacternyk on Saturday January 13, 2024 @05:01PM (#38985051)

If it requires little effort, it's fine, but generally before working on something one should ask the maintainers whether the status quo is deliberate.

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Re:Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic... by deadbabe on Saturday January 13, 2024 @05:12PM (#38985158)

They are free to reject the pull request. The worst they can say is no.

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