SOFTWARE-ENGINEERING
Code Is Cheap. Show Me the Talk.
Look how far we’ve come. Aggressive changes to contribution policies in open source projects, PRs no longer allowed, issues written so messily that nobody can understand them, and maintainers who read paragraph after paragraph without understanding anything, angry and burned out… It leaves the impression that open source projects have lost their importance. That’s partly true, if you judge open source contribution only by diffs and commit counts. Code is very cheap now. We need to talk more, discuss more, understand what’s going on, and know what we’re taking responsibility for. ...