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Discussion on: Community friendliness on dev.to? C'mon, its a myth

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Joe Mainwaring

One thing to keep in mind with tech is that it's similar to the medical industry: There are countless segments and no one person is an expert at everything.

Having worked on the same product suite for nearly a decade, I can speak to being thrown challenges that are outside your area of expertise. It doesn't mean you're a newbie, but unexperienced is plausible in the context of a single feature.

Given that Dev.to uses Forem, an open-source project, why don't you share your feedback as a Github Issue so they can consider revisions?

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Wojciech • Edited

why don't you.........

Because of

Like many open source projects, we require that contributors provide us with a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). By submitting code to the Forem project, you are granting us a right to use that code under the terms of the CLA.

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Open-source and CLA? Hell fucking no. CLA's are generally opposite to what real open-source is.

I will contribute no code to their repo under current conditions. Because its not open-source as team can do everything with your code without even saying a word.

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Joe Mainwaring

I’ve only signed a CLA for code contributions, not GitHub issue discussions

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Wojciech

I understand, but ( for me ) opening issue ( discusing feature/s and/or code ) is also way of contributing. I want noone to take my idea, write it as code, and attribute him/herself to it. Its a theft.

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Joe Mainwaring

Well that's a rather selfish position for someone that's clearly getting value from OSS.

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Wojciech

Well, TBH I wouldnt call myself selfish. Worry not, I do not feel insulted/offended.........

Getting value from OSS? Using != getting. :)
I create FOSS apps; but real FOSS, without CLA's and other shit. Want to help out? No problem. I recomend starting here

As Im writing this, Im also reading all the lies at forem website ( just scroll down ). Post debunking these lies is "under construction".