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I’ve been there, but over the years I’ve gotten better at avoiding being in this situation.
If you are implementing something for yourself, and merging it back upstream is just a bonus, then by all means jump straight to implementing.
However, it’s emotionally draining to implement something and arrive at something you’re proud of only to have it ignored. So do that legwork upfront. File a feature request, open a discussion, join their dev chat - whatever it is, make sure what you want to do is valued and will be welcomed into the project before you start on it. They might even nudge you in a direction that you hadn’t considered before you started.
Be a responsible dev and communicate before you do the work.
And this is why I don’t contribute. Or at least I’ll ask a question about whether or not something would be a desired feature and if I don’t get a clear yes or no by someone who can actually approve a PR, I. ain’t. coding. shit.
This is how its supposed to be done anyway.
Fair enough, but as someone who has worked closely with the Decky Loader maintainers and contributed my own stand alone plugin I get it. We basically all have day jobs as devs and it can be mentally taxing to do more PRs at home. Not to mention sometimes there’s just not enough time in the day, and I don’t even have kids.
Maintainers are ultimately volunteers doing work with hundreds of dollars an hour for free. I’ve had some PRs take 20+ days to be looked at, it’s just how it goes.
This is why I always ask if the maintainers are open to a PR first.
Somebody please fork reprepro, there’s a super useful bugfix in one and a super useful feature in the other but I want both.
The bugfix is the zstd decompression-cancel race condition bug and the feature is multiple versions per package but they’re both super stale.
Maybe…
Maybe I can fork it…Or worse, ban you from their GitHub repository without any reply or explanation
“closed by stalebot”
I did this, then it too so long that it broke. Still hasn’t been pulled.
I once made a PR changing
a = f()froma = "" if b == "" else f(). About six months later still inpending review. I get that people have their own shit but damn.It seems like you are implying this is an obvious optimization, regardless of context. Why do we not care what’s going on with
b?
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If that’s happening to you that’s crazy. GitHub is way too noisy though. I get 30 notifications on that apps notification widget though for just bullshit I didn’t even know I signed up for or snyk or some other garbage.
That’s the fucking worst, when you put all this work into a free and open project only for the lead to be like “nah don’t like it”
Free and Open as in, free to do the work for them and Open for it to be rejected for almost no reason.
Even better when someone makes the exact same PR and it gets merged a few days after being opened and yours left unreviewed.
