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by delfinom 1022 days ago
Welcome to the reality of open source, it's a very limited few dedicated developers often supporting up hundred of thousands of users.

The answer? Just maintain the project as the hobby it started as. Open source is provided without warranty and users are more than free to use the provided binaries for their convenience as-is or learn to compile to contribute fixes.
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psychphysic 1022 days ago
Yeah feature creep is a crime in open source projects.

It's killed more useful projects than it's ever benefitted.

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gilleain 1022 days ago
Ok maybe, but N++ has some great features. For example:

- Line operations (sort, remove blank lines, etc)

- Find/replace that can use either normal, {\n, \r, etc}, or regex

- Right-click to highlight a word in one colour, and then another word in another ...

One of my favourite Windows programs, along with Ditto (clipboard manager)

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delfinom 1022 days ago
One of the worst parts as a core developer of a OSS software is when you get drive-by pull requests of large changes without that person attempting pre-discussion. Said large changes try to introduce feature creep outside what the core team of dedicated developers that will actually stick around for years want or can actually maintain.

You then end up with that drive-by pull requester spitting venom everywhere on twitter and other forums about how hostile the project is

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lelanthran 1022 days ago
> One of the worst parts as a core developer of a OSS software is when you get drive-by pull requests of large changes without that person attempting pre-discussion.

Depends on what you mean by "large changes". I've done drive-bys of changes, but they were, in my opinion, small changes.

(I think I'm in the credits for Lucaschess somewhere because of a 10-line change).

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