Post #1943556
2026-04-24 19:35 UTC
We should copy and paste this message onto all open-source projects to avoid any misunderstandings or false hopes:
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You clearly confuse “open” with “we’ll accept anything”. GNOME is open – you can talk to anyone, work on any module and fix any bug. GNOME is also principled – if your code isn’t good, or your feature isn’t desired by some maintainer, it won’t be accepted. If you know that something won’t be accepted, and yet you work on it, good luck.
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@batsify@ruby.social 2026-04-24 19:36
I also want to open the discussion about the “listen to users opinion” here. It’ll probably hurt you to hear that, but users are not the holy grail for many open source contributors. They are for companies that profit from users, but very unlikely to be for independent contributors. Most of us don’t profit from our work. You can demand features and bugfixes from open source contributors just as much as you can from any random people on the street. From https://feaneron.com/2018/04/20/the-infamous-gnome-shell-memory-leak/#comment-835 [2/2]