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by lbill 1950 days ago
Yep, you still have to deal with all kind of people when you do OS, and that isn't always nice.

I once made a PR to a project I use a lot at work. The PR was about the documentation of the project, so no change to any feature, no new thing, just an improved version of the tutorial... Or so I thought. The maintainers refused my PR. My first instinct was to be upset about it, but then I thought "this might be a natural reaction because they said 'no', but maybe, just maybe I can avoid acting like a kid and use my brain". So I re-read their reply: it contained a valid reason and provided me with a good solution to my problem, I thanked them and moved on. They were just right to refuse my PR.