> i've tried to contribute to about 5 separate bitcoin, lightning and nostr related projects and the wall of silence or unnecessary hostility has been breathtaking
What happened - was there a common thread?
nostr:npub1elta7cneng3w8p9y4dw633qzdjr4kyvaparuyuttyrx6e8xp7xnq32cume your suggestion to require a buy-in would scare off all prospective contributors 😅. After all, FOSS devs volunteer their time, which at professional rates is not cheap. This is costly enough.
Rather maybe an easier to implement filter is start with small, consistent, reliable contributions. If it’s a good match for both sides, increasing responsibility is in order. Finding these type of long-term contributors is key to FOSS.
in the case of LND, they just completely failed to be timely about looking at the PR i made, and had to repeatedly update because they were merging other commits that required me to redo big parts of the changes, 4 times, and i was like, ok, nope this is never gonna happen
probably the PR is still sitting on the thing, nearly 2 years later
the purpose of the PR was to make it easier to pull in the protocol message code without the entire repository being compiled with it
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