Aaron Rainbolt on Nostr: If you happen to be a well-known person in an open-source project you contribute to, ...

If you happen to be a well-known person in an open-source project you contribute to, please consider not responding negatively when you see someone you don't recognize suggesting a big feature in your project. They may be a random user who thinks they have a grand idea that everyone else will implement... or they might be someone who would have been willing to do immense amounts of work to contribute to your project. Mistaking the future contributors for clueless users is how you get great devs to stay away from your project. (And really, the clueless users might become future contributors if you're nice to them.)

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