> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:18:52AM +0300, Rostislav Krasny wrote: > > You just lose users and popularity. > > In this community, your statement has the opposite effect of what it is > trying to achieve. It puts developers off and discourages them from > worrying about your problem. > > At any given moment, there are enough problems developers have to worry > about already. Hardware they want to use which does not work yet, new > problems people report in code they've recently changed, chasing new > developments in code they've ported from other projects, new features > they want to implement, etc. etc.; all stacked against limited time. > Worrying about popularity on top of it all would just be distracting. > > The mindset here is that if you really want something fixed in OpenBSD, > try to fix it yourself, and then try to share your fix with the rest of us. > That's how, collectively, we produce value, and popularity has nothing to > do with it.
damn straight
