Every open source software has a maintainer. In case of it being maintained by 'community', it is maintained by a person who pretends all are included.
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2024
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This. There nearly never is a community, at least in practice. Bigger projects have different roles, but its mostly "if you dont know how to code, you are likely not helping"
Maybe instead of Torvalds taking lessons on how to be less of an asshole, he should be teaching developers how to be more like him.
He's doing the right thing and softening his responses to be more welcoming to new contributors, but it's still totally understandable when any open source dev loses patience. We have thousands of requests coming at us from all angles and no one has infinite patience.
I think that falls under "Burnout Management"
There are thousands of you and me who work around the clock to prevent the internet from blowing up all the time.
A lot of people can't handel the constant stress, terrible hours, it takes a toll on each of us.
Softening responses, good for sure, but the demands put on the pioneers of tech, much respect -- we wouldn't be where we are without them in spite of their very real human limitations. Much props for their daily self sacrifice.
I always admire the people taking a lot of their free time to do something beneficial for the community.
Be it as a maintainer, a small basketball coach. a village politician.
I’ve always thought about one day giving back everything I’ve received like that, but I haven’t done yet. Right now I have excuses with a difficult parental situation, but there has been many moments where I could and I just haven’t.
So congratulations and thanks to the ones doing it 👍
Going to throw in Open source is not about you as a relevant related read.
Well written, it would deserve a separate post.
Thanks.