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It’s like this everywhere, you’ll always be initially met with circumspection. Passer-by contributions are not a help, helping out new contributors is a lot of effort that not every maintainer wants to deal with. You want to help, that’s great, but you’re not entitled to helping.
Gnome might be a club, but it’s definitely not closed, you just need to put in the effort to show you’re worth having around.
No thanks. I don’t want nor need to be in the club. Nor will I ever go out of my way to show people that I’m “worth having around” in my free time. I don’t think that’s healthy.
If they don’t see my worth or I am actually worthless to have around I’ll search for someplace else. Like I said already: I have never had that problem in any other project.
Also I don’t feel entitled to have my patches merged. I can maintain them myself if necessary.
Well as far as i can see you’ve only had a problem with evince, which is retired btw. Gnome isn’t a giant blob, each maintainer handles their project in their own way.
I was curious not knowing that evince is getting retired and looked into this It seems there was a problem even for established contributors which is why it was eventually forked. This Blogpost goes into detail.
It seems the main maintainer had very little time for the project. I don’t know if that was the case 4 years ago but if it was it would explain some things.
Great attitude! I was the issue all along. Who would’ve thought.
Strange that I didn’t have that problem almost anywhere else where I contributed.
Edit: you do see how your comment matches my experience that it feels more like a closed club of elites right?
It’s like this everywhere, you’ll always be initially met with circumspection. Passer-by contributions are not a help, helping out new contributors is a lot of effort that not every maintainer wants to deal with. You want to help, that’s great, but you’re not entitled to helping.
Gnome might be a club, but it’s definitely not closed, you just need to put in the effort to show you’re worth having around.
No thanks. I don’t want nor need to be in the club. Nor will I ever go out of my way to show people that I’m “worth having around” in my free time. I don’t think that’s healthy.
If they don’t see my worth or I am actually worthless to have around I’ll search for someplace else. Like I said already: I have never had that problem in any other project.
Also I don’t feel entitled to have my patches merged. I can maintain them myself if necessary.
If you think there’s a problem, you should report it.
Gotta stick around to find out.
Well as far as i can see you’ve only had a problem with evince, which is retired btw. Gnome isn’t a giant blob, each maintainer handles their project in their own way.
I was curious not knowing that evince is getting retired and looked into this It seems there was a problem even for established contributors which is why it was eventually forked. This Blogpost goes into detail.
It seems the main maintainer had very little time for the project. I don’t know if that was the case 4 years ago but if it was it would explain some things.
Yes which is why I never said the whole of gnome is like that but what my experience was and why I suggested investigating if the claim has merit.