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by torginus 91 days ago
This is what I dislike about a lot of open source projects (not all, but a significant amout of the notable ones) - publicly it's proclaimed that the code's open, and you are free to fix bugs and implement your changes.

But when you try to do so, you see there's very little documentation and help out in the open, and by the commit history, you can see there's been like three dozen people who have ever contributed to the project.

The rate of code change and the obscurity means the knowledge simply does not build up over time.

So it's unclear how to fix an issue you've encountered, or add a feature, and if you've done so, how to get your changes merged.