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Discussion on: What BOTHERS you most about Open Source Collaboration? (maintainers, and collaborators)

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Simon Bengtsson • Edited
  1. Yes
  2. Yes
  3. Code contributions monthly. Reporting and triaging bugs etc weekly, but often more frequently.

  4. As maintainer I respond to twitter questions, Github issues, stackoverflow questions and review pull requests. Also of course write code to fix bugs and add features. As contributor I mainly submit feature requests and bug reports. But of course also contribute code to fix bugs or add new features that I want myself.

  5. Github and especially Github issues. For a while in one project I briefly used gitter.im to chat with contributors and answer questions. I am apart of some discord servers for some bigger open source projects I have contributed to in the past.

  6. To want to use the project myself either right now or sometime in the future.

7 and 8.

The main thing that bothers me with open source today is how hard it is to collaborate, share and explore projects which is only partly (or not at all) software focused. Github has many awesome tools for collaborating and exploring open source software projects, but I don't know of any more general platforms.

Something else that bothers me is that projects abandoned by their creator often don't survive even if many other people express willingness to continue contributing.