An inspired blogpost by Frank Denis on the depression that may be felt by FOSS maintainers

  • CHEF-KOCH
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    12 years ago

    You will always suffer, as a developer, from low-quality comments, pull requests and argumentation. There is no tool to change that since you cannot influence, change or put force on people doing XZZ. Over 70 Percent of FOSS work is talking talking talking and it is annoying and boring, but this is the way how it is.

    You are incorrect saying this is not a user thing, it absolutely is. The only way is to enforce something on them, platform wise or manually, but that is all you can do. The more experience a user has with FOSS or contribution in general, the more advance he will become, and therefore the overall quality of his interaction will usually go up. As always, there are exceptions.