I’m curious to hear people’s thoughts on what principles open source projects should adhere to in order to promote transparency, inclusiveness, and effective development. Are there any specific projects you feel do a great job following certain principles in how they operate? I’m interested in how projects organize decision making, manage donations, incorporate community feedback, communicate updates, and more. Please share projects you appreciate for how they approach open source development!

    • thejevans@lemmy.ml
      11·
      1 year ago

      Maybe they could be a bit more explicit, but I don’t see hypocrisy.

      Accepting your description of their comments:

      I’m busy and don’t have time for this

      is roughly equivalent to

      I will not be personally taking on this issue, so if someone wants to contribute, this is a reasonable candidate.

      which is good information to get from a maintainer.

      I will say, however, the times they said something along those lines in the examples you gave in your last post, they also said why they didn’t consider it a high priority, which gives more important context as well.

    • severien@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      Rules for thee but not for me

      It’s normal that there are different rules for authors and bug reporters.

      It’s like you’re complaining that there are different rules for guests and the owner of a house.

    • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Do I really need to explain to you what the hypocrisy there is? Rules for thee but not for me.

      If they are busy they shouldn’t say anything, let other people contribute something actually useful to the issue at hand.

      So people can come up with “the maintainer do not answer to the community” drama ?