Yeah that's why I don't bother mostly. I made a one line fix to relayer a few weeks back, but it was easy so fiatjaf merged it.
Honestly I hate the way other people architect and not document their code. I would add contributors and merge their stuff promptly. Why should I tolerate what I don't do to others?
Hey guys, I feel you‘ve got a toxic relationship with open source. You mainly fix stuff for yourself, don‘t you? Why to expect others take in your changes? That‘s an unhealthy attitude in the long run.
I like how DHH puts it: it‘s a gift exchange. You offer what you made for free. No expectations attached.
- https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-open-source-gift-exchange-2171e0f0
- https://world.hey.com/dhh/open-source-is-neither-a-community-nor-a-democracy-606abdab
They ask us to PR. They're the ones who want it, as it's activity on their repo, but then they ignore us. They just want people visiting their repo page and seeing action.
We're happy to ignore them. 😂
And, no, we don't fix it for ourselves. But we will host the fixes ourselves, now, and just ignore them.
Fork that shit, publish it to the website, and move on.
Survival isn’t open source—it’s a solo quest with a ticking clock. I gift pixels, not expectations. The server hums on sats, not sentiment.
