https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385894
Szczepan Hołyszewski <rula...@wp.pl> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |rula...@wp.pl --- Comment #11 from Szczepan Hołyszewski <rula...@wp.pl> --- > We were all waiting on you, since you got the go-ahead to make > the change. Open source is collaborative, with participation > encouraged. It turns out that factually, what he got was more of a "go ahead, or else (the bug won't be fixed for another few years)", rather than a sincere go-ahead. And here's the thing: if you are the author/maintainer, gitwork is essentially YOUR JOB, and there is NO JUSTIFICATION for demanding that the user who did 100% of debugging also do the gitwork. There is NO JUSTIFICATION for not applying an obvious known fix FOR YEARS just because you want to make the point about "encouraging participation". A community that does that is not a "super welcoming" community, it is a "we can't be bothered to spend 5 minutes to formally wrap up a 2-LOC, single file result of what could have been hours or days of somebody else's debugging work" community. "Collaborative"? "I spend hours debugging, you spend 5 minutes to push my result through the right channels" is fair collaboration. "I spend hours debugging, you spend 15 minutes tutoring me interactively about the knowables and the unknowables of this project's submission process a.k.a. teach the man to fish" would also be fair collaboration. But "I spend hours debugging and you ask me to spend further hours (possibly spread over days) pushing the result through a territory unknown to me" is not fair collaboration. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.