• PenguinCoder@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Entitlement in open source is a real thing

    Goes both ways, from/by developers and from/by users.

    demands on so few people, entitled to their free labor while contributing nothing back, is a terrible thing to do to a person.

    Demands:

    • They’ve never opened a single issue or PR.
    • no specific feature requests t
    • never opened any issue for the features he wanted
    • not[sic] did he attempt to contribute with a pull request
    • switch to a different platform, …

    And the entitlement is pretty damn strong from your side too. It’s an open source project that is your baby; I get it. What makes you entitled to other people doing everything except the actual code portion, for YOU? If it gets to the point of needing an ‘RFC’ to contribute code to Lemmy or even request a change…

    Well, good luck. Why should people do your work that you get paid to do (as said often by yourself and Nutomic), when they aren’t getting paid a cent?? That is the epitome of entitled. You want free work, but you don’t want to give your work for free

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      It is absolutely impossible for 2-4 devs to please everyone in a codebase used by >40k people. If you ran a codebase used by this many people, you’d understand our pain. You cannot make everyone happy.

      You want free work, but you don’t want to give your work for free

      Check out our github profiles if you think we aren’t doing work. This is easily verifiable.

      How can you think that this tiny group of people, fielding the requests of thousands, is entitled? We’re simply requesting that people do the open source thing, and contribute a PR, when we don’t have time to work on an issue. Would you like it if I made you change your priorities and work on what I wanted you to work on?

      • PenguinCoder@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        8 months ago

        It is absolutely impossible for 2-4 devs to please everyone in a codebase used by […] people […] You cannot make everyone happy.

        I agree, you are correct.

        Check out our github profiles if you think we aren’t doing work. This is easily verifiable.

        Not what I said. You are paid for your work on Lemmy, right?? I didn’t say you weren’t doing any work. You’re being obtuse and putting words in my mouth.

        Good job entirely dismissing everything my comment said without actually responding to anything in it.

        • nutomic@lemmy.ml
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          8 months ago

          No we arent getting paid, there is no employment contract with anyone. We are working on Lemmy in our own time, and receiving donations from some users. It may seem like a minor difference but its important, because donations dont include any obligation to give something specific in return, or prioritize specific tasks.