The forked elephant in the room

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 14:24:09 UTC, Dukc wrote:

> For an open-source project contributor enthusiasm is a central 
> resource, much like money is for a commercial company. It's 
> what makes the project to run. Hence anything that people have 
> wish to do on their own initiative should be considered much 
> cheaper relative to the needed man-hours than less popular 
> work. Same for hanging a PR up because of relatively trivial 
> nitpicks. If addressing some nitpicks takes the contributor 30% 
> more time but leaves him feeling like "not going to do again", 
> the cost of those nitpicks was far more than 30% of the 
> original work.

The reason I don't want to contribute is because the standard 
isn't "Does it pass the tests it's supposed to pass?" and "Is it 
written in an idiomatic style?", the standard is instead the 
reviewer asking "Is the code written the way I would have written 
it?" I just don't have time for that.