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Re:The reason people burn out on open source by mfringel on Sunday December 07, 2014 @09:23AM (#8712227)
"Politeness" is not a vestigial compile-time option, to be discarded in the pursuit of efficiency.

Having a basic respect for another hacker's time on a project they're maintaining out of the goodness of their heart is what causes people to keep maintaining projects.

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Re:The reason people burn out on open source by mercurial on Sunday December 07, 2014 @01:43PM (#8713083)
> "Politeness" is not a vestigial compile-time option, to be discarded in the pursuit of efficiency.

Especially since rudeness is a good way to get drama and nothing done. To paraphrase Neil Gaiman, maintainers are not your bitch. Treat them as courteously as you would like to be treated yourself.

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