I got robbed of my first kernel contribution

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• jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tldr: someone is upset a maintainer wrote their own patch following style guidelines

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  • platypode@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The maintainer also comes off as a colossal asshole about the whole thing who didn’t even deign to offer a scrap of credit to the programmer who found and fixed a six-year-old bug. If the article is truthful, the maintainer is the sort of toxic, power-tripping, self-obsessed repo czar that actively makes the open source community worse.

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    • czech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The quote in the article is not what the maintainer actually wrote. What they wrote was:

      Thanks for your patch, but I wanted to fix it differently. Can you try the patch below and make sure it fixes the bug for you?

      Seems they should have attributed correctly but they weren’t as dismissive as the blog makes it seem.

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    • jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Being a maintainer is often a thankless job. I will always give maintainers the benefit of the doubtz especially when they are being active, and not leaving gaps.

      Regardless of how this contributer wants to be acknowledged for a drive by contribution, Im sure they will keep developing and build a name for themselves so that a single patch isn’t a huge issue

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