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Python finally offloads some batteries

Python finally offloads some batteries

Posted Mar 17, 2022 3:36 UTC (Thu) by k8to (guest, #15413)
In reply to: Python finally offloads some batteries by NYKevin
Parent article: Python finally offloads some batteries

I mean, in practice i've tried to submit bug fixes to some lesser maintained core libraries and got told to shove off no one wanted to review my fixes for this crap library. So I guess I'm a leech because I was told to leech.


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Python finally offloads some batteries

Posted Mar 17, 2022 6:26 UTC (Thu) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325) [Link] (2 responses)

Several years ago, I uploaded a few lines of SQL to GitHub as a Gist. I wrote those lines of SQL while trying to teach myself about a specific domain's typical data model (if you must know, it was double-entry bookkeeping). It's a very simplistic demonstration of "when you strip all the complicated bullshit away, here's what an accounting ledger actually looks like." Every few months, some random drops a comment asking me if I considered use case X or Y. It's a Gist, not a proper GitHub project (no bug tracker, only one file, that file is well under 50 lines of code, and I'm being generous in describing a schema as "code", etc.). It's not *supposed* to support use case X, for any value of X. It's not even supposed to be used, you're really just supposed to look at it to better understand the problem domain (obviously, if someone chooses to run it, I'm not going to try and stop them, but it is very obviously an incomplete product). I can't imagine what happens to people who upload whole-ass codebases they wrote five years ago and never intended to support.

So yes, people will reject incoming contributions, if the project was never intended to be supported in the first place, or if they have decided to stop supporting it, as is their prerogative. Nobody can force me to do a code review if I don't want to (except maybe for my employer, but they pay me for that).

Python finally offloads some batteries

Posted Mar 17, 2022 8:34 UTC (Thu) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link] (1 responses)

Python is not 10 lines on a pastebin.

Python finally offloads some batteries

Posted Mar 17, 2022 17:18 UTC (Thu) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325) [Link]

I never said it was. My point is that, even if it *was* 10 lines on a pastebin, people would still expect support, because people, in general, are unreasonable, and developers get tired of dealing with them.

Python finally offloads some batteries

Posted Mar 24, 2022 20:49 UTC (Thu) by dm93 (guest, #157602) [Link]

This was my experience as well.

I was told not to fix things because "it would clutter up the git history."


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