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Open source maintainers underpaid and going gray (www.theregister.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I got a single class that supported new hardware written for a controller. They said they don't want the overhead of maintaining an additional class for new hardware (a class that doesn't change ever btw). I thought whatever, works for me, doesn't need to be on the repo and "I got mine". I have since seen 3 people asking if the hardware is supported / asking for it to be implemented. Oh well.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In that case I'd point them to your fork with a link to the PR where they maintainer chose not to include it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Why? To start problems for me from pissy maintainers when I need help with something?