Contributions in open source projects are great, needed and make the world a better place after all. Therefore they should be declined politely, optionally by giving a reason.

I hereby inform you that I will no longer accept contributions to this post /s.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 children)

I never understand people rejecting free improvements on FOSS projects.

EDIT: Y'all, It's not like I cannot comprehend why they do it. Please stop trying to explain it to me. When I said "I don't understand", I meant the psyche of the character that does that. I personally do FOSS to improve the world and collaborate with others that do so as well. I will never get people who do FOSS and then get salty about people liking it too much.

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 56 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Every bit of code a maintainer accepts becomes their responsibility to maintain. Considering that half the time „improvements” don’t even have tests to help maintaining them, feel free to maintain your own fork.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Sure, one can request those PRs to add those tests before merging.

Don't get me wrong, I can understand why someone wants to just share without collaborating, but I don't get why they would publish in a collaborative environment, and then make memes about people trying to collaborate with them.

Personally, as someone writing FOSS for a while now, I'm always happy to get anyone helping out and get demotivated when nobody cares. Being actively hostile to actual code contributors, is just fucking bizarre to me.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

I make my code open source and public so people can use it if they find it useful, not because I expect anyone to contribute.

And there’s a big fucking difference between actively hostile and “I’m not interested in accepting this change”.

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