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On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 14:38:58 +0100 |
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Toralf Förster <toralf@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 12/16/2017 09:34 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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> > I learned from this experience that |
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> > I don't need to be a member of a distribution to contribute |
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> So there's no need to become a dev to just contribute - but shouldn't |
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> make it that task easier? |
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I guess not if your ndewly gained title makes some other developers |
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think they can treat you as trash, and that yet more developers |
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entirely fail to stop those few nasties. You might just become more |
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timid, distrust your own contributions, retreat into a niche where no |
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one might bother you. That's where the fun stops. I should know. I've |
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been retreating there for years.[1] |
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> Therefore my (naive) question - what is the advantage to give away the |
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> dev status ? |
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Daniel quite adequately explains that the balanced tipped to the side |
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of the bad stuff. His story suggests to me that "giving away the dev |
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status" isn't an apt paraphrasing. |
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[1] Even more so this year, when some of the younger developers |
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invested in several important teams started teaming up and bullying |
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most other developers in the name of mostly their own cleverness but |
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also QA, CI and something still ironically called Community Relations. |
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