Sure I totally understand that Hacktoberfest are the horror for repro maintainer (sometimes!). But I also understand what do you mean. I'm not in the Open Source / Linux community for over 10 years.
I meet a lot of people at Hackathons, Congresses and more. Some of them are very friendly, some of them are strange and they match the cliché about People who work in the Information science. Like people like Richard Stallman.
some are just very reserved and want to see what you can do first. But some are also arrogant if they don't admit it because they don't know. either you like this community and accept people with their idiosyncrasies or not.
I also agree that there is a spectrum of people, whether friendly or not, who use and contribute to OSS so it's a given that there are bad actors in the community.
From my limited perspective though, I feel like there are more novice developers (not just lay users) who feel entitled to updates or features of packages they use rather than forking the project or submitting a pull request. Again, I admit that this may always come with a user base.
I guess what I want to advocate for is to raise the bar / minimum requirement and tackle the issue of not being held accountable for abusive messages online in the software development community.
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Sure I totally understand that Hacktoberfest are the horror for repro maintainer (sometimes!). But I also understand what do you mean. I'm not in the Open Source / Linux community for over 10 years.
I meet a lot of people at Hackathons, Congresses and more. Some of them are very friendly, some of them are strange and they match the cliché about People who work in the Information science. Like people like Richard Stallman.
some are just very reserved and want to see what you can do first. But some are also arrogant if they don't admit it because they don't know. either you like this community and accept people with their idiosyncrasies or not.
Thank you for your insight and opinion Stephen!
I also agree that there is a spectrum of people, whether friendly or not, who use and contribute to OSS so it's a given that there are bad actors in the community.
From my limited perspective though, I feel like there are more novice developers (not just lay users) who feel entitled to updates or features of packages they use rather than forking the project or submitting a pull request. Again, I admit that this may always come with a user base.
I guess what I want to advocate for is to raise the bar / minimum requirement and tackle the issue of not being held accountable for abusive messages online in the software development community.