I've heard some people take the approach of "merge everything". Whatever people contribute, merge it. People like to feel like their time is valuable, and that their work is valued.

You can follow up the merge with polish or tweaks but if you merge contributions you're more likely to see more.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

XZ says thank you.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

😆 I don't think you're supposed to take it literally. And it's advice for everyone's pet open source projects that no one else ever seems to contribute to, not really good advice for software that holds up civilization.

[–] Muehe@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

pet open source projects that no one else ever seems to contribute to, not [...] software that holds up civilization

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[–] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I see where you came from.

There are people submitting code with wrong licenses or no attribution. There are people just submitting for the sake of submitting - I dare github profiles for this. There are people who could need some feedback on their code, so that future contributions have better quality.

And it can be very burdensome for a maintainer, assuming he maintains within its free time, to perfectly communicate and elaborate on each contribution.

Also, maybe the project has a feature freeze because in the aimed architecture the same solution would be implemented externally.

Its just not that simple and people generalizing or concluding too fast are mostlikely in the wrong. Bad PR travles faster and further though.