When you’re talking to an open source dev, just remember that they are literally giving you their time for free, and they are people who don’t like to be treated poorly.

Edit: Just to be clear, I don’t mean any ill will toward the guy. He’s frustrated and he’s just taking it out in the wrong venue at the wrong people, but that doesn’t mean he’s a bad person.

Edit 2: The reinstalling he’s talking about is NPM. So just running npm install. It’s because he tried removing the node_modules directory, which is a reasonable thing to do, but it means you need to reinstall the modules with that command.

  • NotJustForMe
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    10 months ago

    Hehe, sometimes I wish that I could be snarky like that. ;) Good for you.

    I have been told by numerous people these days that there are no free things in life. I write and contribute to FOSS software, and had that exact discussion.

    Apparently, I do it to feel good, and for the prestige, a reward in itself. Also, I probably want to make up for something.

    “Doing something for free is no excuse to do it badly.”

    Some others don’t even know what “free” means." And some don’t believe it at all, that someone is paying me. Probably thinking about influencers or something. Perhaps they saw an ad somewhere and believed I’d see any of that revenue. ;)

    I just went with posting the wiki entry about FOSS, and my ko-fi page, and thanked them for their interest. The first two, because they genuinely didn’t know any better, and the third because, well, at least that one is clear. Every user is a tester. Testing is good.