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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Replying to @searls
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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Replying to @sgrif
FWIW, I do my best to be welcoming / supportive / encouraging, but >95% of people that contribute to my projects only ever send one PR. None are famous projects and the vast majority are users who just want it to do exactly one more thing.
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(regardless of scope of project)
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Yeah, I can only speak to my weird brand of highly opinionated functional libs and highly niche glue libs
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Either way, getting folks to come back for more is one of the hardest problems in oss governance. It's a shame we don't talk about strategies more.
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