Quotes of the week

This work is way more fun when we can work together, and the relationships I've built in this community through this collaboration around solving problems are my most cherished professional relationships.

Or we can keep doing this, randomly throwing mud at each other, pissing each other off, making ourselves into unhireable pariahs. I've made my decision, and honestly I think it's better.

I try to make my merge commit messages be somewhat "cohesive", and so I often edit the pull request language to match a more standard layout and language. It's not a big deal, and often it's literally just about whitespace so that we don't have fifteen different indentation models and bullet syntaxes. I generally do it as I read through the text anyway, so it's not like it makes extra work for me.

But what *does* make extra work is when some maintainers use passive voice, and then I try to actively rewrite the explanation (or, admittedly, sometimes I just decide I don't care quite enough about trying to make the messages sound the same).

So I would ask maintainers to please use active voice, and preferably just imperative.

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