[systemsettings] [Bug 385894] plasma-desktop-5.11.1/kcms/hardware/joystick/joydevice.cpp:188]: (error) Memory leak

[Szczepan Hołyszewski]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385894

Szczepan Hołyszewski <rulatir at wp.pl> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Szczepan Hołyszewski <rulatir at wp.pl> ---
> We were all waiting on you, since you got the go-ahead to make
> the change. Open source is collaborative, with participation
> encouraged.

It turns out that factually, what he got was more of a "go ahead, or else (the
bug won't be fixed for another few years)", rather than a sincere go-ahead. And
here's the thing: if you are the author/maintainer, gitwork is essentially YOUR
JOB, and there is NO JUSTIFICATION for demanding that the user who did 100% of
debugging also do the gitwork. There is NO JUSTIFICATION for not applying an
obvious known fix FOR YEARS just because you want to make the point about
"encouraging participation". A community that does that is not a "super
welcoming" community, it is a "we can't be bothered to spend 5 minutes to
formally wrap up a 2-LOC, single file result of what could have been hours or
days of somebody else's debugging work" community. "Collaborative"? "I spend
hours debugging, you spend 5 minutes to push my result through the right
channels" is fair collaboration. "I spend hours debugging, you spend 15 minutes
tutoring me interactively about the knowables and the unknowables of this
project's submission process a.k.a. teach the man to fish" would also be fair
collaboration. But "I spend hours debugging and you ask me to spend further
hours (possibly spread over days) pushing the result through a territory
unknown to me" is not fair collaboration.

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