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0 pointsstaz11y ago0 comments

This is not a problem of entitlement where people expect that you fix their bug for them. This is an anti pattern because many people consider this type of answer rude and it doesn't create a welcoming community.

Saying "This is a legitimate bug, but I don't care enough to fix this for you." is already an order of magnitude more polite than "Pull request welcome" or the older "Patch welcome" , explaining in details why and if necessary how open source work even more so. You have to remember than not every one know the Open Source community speak. If you can guide the reporter on how to create said pull request, even better.

Yes its take more works and it's less fun than hacking at code, but building a great community is a lot of works. It's also, for me at least, what separate good projects from great ones

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mpdehaan211y ago

Yeah, but it's not the same thing.

This is a legit bug results in the bug staying open.

Pull requests welcome is "I feel this is a feature, but we'd be open to you working on it".

I think one of the great tragedies of the internet is people assuming people say things they don't mean.

And yes, building a great community is a lot of work, and it's something we spend a TON of time on. And it's why we have one of the most contributed to projects on Github.

Getting to 810 contributors is really hard, and you don't do it easily :)

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