How open source eats time: 1. Too busy to address issue myself, say "PRs welcome" 2. Receive PR 3. PR is bumped several times asking for merge 4. I review, but PR needs a ton of work 5. Remediating the PR (myself or via comments) consumes more time than doing it myself would have
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This isn't a bad thing if the contributor in question comes back to contribute more (since subsequent PRs start to take less work). It's when folks just do the one that it's a big drain on the project's resources.
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Relevant portion of a talk from a few years back:https://youtu.be/u2xzRUYrsWA?t=1426 …
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