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by kklisura 997 days ago
I agree, although I do understand that some people might have a problem with it.

Last year I spent the whole friday night debugging an issue in a lib I've been using at work. I found an issue, wrote tests to demonstrate it, fixed the issue, write more tests and opened a PR. Maintainer months later closed an issue and I saw it has been fixed within one of his owns PRs. It did sting a bit, but I remembered I learned A LOT while debugging it and I fixed an issue that was bugging us on work.

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Maybe the connection to this topic won't be obvious, but I used to read Animal Farm and think that the Donkey was supeior to the Horse. Nowadays I don't think that anymore. The Horse was never alone for a day in his life. The Donkey survived the Horse but was left alone. So I now think "I will work harder" is the right approach most of the time.