On 16/08/2025 18:33, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
On 2025-08-16 14:53:26 +0200 (+0200), Joachim Zobel wrote:
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Not being able to do a MR is OK. Submitting a MR that I think might be
useful and never getting any reaction is frustrating.
Is it frustrating enough to prompt you to reach out to the package
maintainer(s) through other channels (bug report, E-mail, IRC), or is
that level of effort too much to ask?
I would have considered that to be nagging.
The MR itself is just a cover page "bug" that points at a git branch. So
raising MR bug + raising BTS bug would have seemed pushy to me.
Until reading these threads and learning about salsa settings and the
different views maintainers have, now I view it differently.
Note this is not meant as a rhetorical question nor a judgement. I see
this sort of response crop up in multiple communities in which I
participate and so am trying to understand what is an acceptable amount
of investment vs what is deemed too much to bother with. Lots of
established open source communities are struggling to cope with (in the
opinion of many, unrealistic) expectations from incoming drive-by
contributors, and it's a very tough balance to strike between existing
workflows and how newcomers think free/libre open source collaboration
happens.
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Regards,
Ahmad
