Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums
On 9/30/21, Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 08:46:35PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
>>Do you really mean that in the open source world, there is - and should
>>be - no expectation that a contributor who supplies a patch to a
>>prominent public project that is rejected should receive at least some
>>sort of explanation for the decision to reject it? I respect your
>>opinion, but I would have assumed that basic courtesy and civility, and
>>the open source ethos in general, suggest otherwise.
>
> Of course it would be polite to offer a response and I think most
> maintainers in most circumstances would do so. But volunteer time
> is limited and one can't demand a volunteer spend their time on
> anything.
In fact, annoying volunteers tends to reduce their voluntarism...
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