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It takes time to validate a PR, to test it, to verify it. He is not being paid for his time, he does not owe -anyone- his time.

If you don't like the way a project is being run, fork it and own it yourself.

I know that's harsh, and not idealistic, but it's the way people should really think about this. People take FOSS for granted, CONSTANTLY. And maintainers even more so.



The PR contributor was not paid either to investigate the bug, reproduce it, write a patch and test it.

However instead of raising a "don't work, please fix" bug s/he took the time to do all that.

Anyone that went to such length deserve basic courtesy, whether the code is accepted or refused.

Refusing a patch because it is "boring" is not respecting the time people dedicated to your project.

I would understand refusing because the patch makes an unwanted compromise on performance and the maintainer considers performance regressions as bug.


These are merely your expectations, and this will probably disappoint you in the future.

I have replied to logged issues with the question: "I don't work on this, unless you have set aside a budget that pays my hourly rate".


And when maintainers respond to a significant amount of work involved in a PR for a bug with a note that they aren't interested because it's "boring" then they can be critiqued for being a jerk, because they decided to be a jerk.

If the maintainer had said, "Hey, I don't have the time to review/test/verify this PR so I'm closing it for now," the backlash probably wouldn't have been quite so severe.




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