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On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Andreas K. Huettel |
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<dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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> Here's my answer to your contributor: "It's great that you're considering it, |
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> and we're happy to help you. It's worth becoming a full dev, since you have |
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> far more possibilities to directly contribute and also influence where Gentoo |
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> is going. However, it's going to be some work and it will need some |
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> commitment." |
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This. |
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There are many reasons to contribute to FOSS vs just maintaining your |
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own private fork. |
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The selfish reason is the hope that somebody else will take care of |
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your work. So, when somebody changes foo.eclass they'll notice that |
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they're going to break your ebuild and either avoid breaking it or fix |
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it for you. If you stick it in your overlay, then you get to play |
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keep-up. |
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The altruistic reason is so that others can benefit from your work, |
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just as you have benefitted from others. |
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I've got stuff in my personal overlay that I haven't put in the main |
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tree, mainly because it works well enough for me and I don't want to |
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be bothered with the hassle of making it work well enough for |
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everybody else. Even so, I do try to nag myself about it all the |
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same, because the fact is that they're missed opportunities to help |
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others. I don't mind when others nag me about them either (yes, I |
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know I need to get systemd-cron into the tree - I've been too lazy to |
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test it on a chroot to detect all the tweaks I made to get it to work |
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right - keep bugging me). |
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The best way to promote altruism is to not kick people in the groin so |
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much when they do something nice. |
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Rich |
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