Electrical Engineer with M.Sc. in Communications and Informations theory. Passionate about Software-Defined Radio and now working in the autonomous driving industry.
Location
Friedrichshafen, Germany
Education
M.Sc. Communications and Information Theory
Work
R&D Engineer - Autonomous Driving Projects at ZF Friedrichshafen AG
I was thinking the same here: the "issues" section is for, well, reporting issues. Sure, not all maintainers might be so picky to make of this a big deal, but also others like to keep of the sections clean, as it makes their life easier (it serves as statistic for bug-squashing, to represent how stable is the current state of the project, etc). Some just read the number of issues open and make themselves an idea of the project stability, without regarding if any of those is a "thanks for your hard work!".
This trick might be great for small projects, maintained by a small team, but for more mature projects you have other communication channels that are more appropriate (slack channels or mailing lists, or twitter as Aleksei mentions - or any other social network the project makes presence on).
I'm sure the intentions of these "thanks" are the best, don't get me (us) wrong. But, have you seen those "please don't talk to the driver" signs on buses? This is a similar thing.
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I was thinking the same here: the "issues" section is for, well, reporting issues. Sure, not all maintainers might be so picky to make of this a big deal, but also others like to keep of the sections clean, as it makes their life easier (it serves as statistic for bug-squashing, to represent how stable is the current state of the project, etc). Some just read the number of issues open and make themselves an idea of the project stability, without regarding if any of those is a "thanks for your hard work!".
This trick might be great for small projects, maintained by a small team, but for more mature projects you have other communication channels that are more appropriate (slack channels or mailing lists, or twitter as Aleksei mentions - or any other social network the project makes presence on).
I'm sure the intentions of these "thanks" are the best, don't get me (us) wrong. But, have you seen those "please don't talk to the driver" signs on buses? This is a similar thing.