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[...] I announce that our move off of wlroots is now complete and MR 6608 is now merged.

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The thing about Foss is that it's typically community oriented. You are not only able to contribute and participate, but you're invited to do so.

And if you're an asshole and your community is toxic then who cares if your code is good? There are other projects I'd rather participate in. Cuz you're not that good.

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

That's correct, but sometimes in that sense you don't engage with anyone and just read the docs. Also there are some cases when main contributors were toxic or unhelpful in a long run that community decided to create independent fork that's more FOSS driven, not by elitism driven.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I have contributed to other projects without really needing to get involved in their community in any personal/parasocial level, though.

I just make a pull request and when the code was good it was accepted, when not it got rejected. Sometimes I've had to make changes before it getting merged, but I had no need to engage in discussions on discord or anything like that. I've been in some mailing lists to keep track on some projects, but never really engaged deeply, specially if it goes off-topic.

If I find that a good code contribution is rejected for whatever toxic reason, then the consequence of that is the code would stop being as good as it could have (because of the contributions being rejected/slowed down), so it's then that forking might be in order. Of course the code matters.