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dadiowe wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:50 pm But, sorry i may be missing something, I don't see anything on the wiki or the forum about this

crasbe wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:26 am I don't really like being called a hypocrite in my private messages, so I'll let you know how Open Source, community based projects work:


Everyone has a role in an Open Source project. There are people who drive the project, such as Damien, Johannes, Tom, uhi, Pete and a couple more. Additionally there are developers, who contribute bigger or smaller parts of the software. Then there are people who write documentation and help making the stuff that developers developed accessible. There are users and testers, who try to find, replicate and document bugs so they can be fixed. There are people who make videos trying to explain their progress and how they solved issues.
All of these have in common that they spend dozens, hundreds, thousands or more hours and thousands of Euros of their own funds. The project lives from these people.

Then there are some people who see an Open Source project as a product, as a service. They feel entitled for some reason or another that they should receive help and all the developers should dedicate their time to answer their requests and help them instead of dedicating their time advancing the project.

You might fit as well into this category and perhaps view yourself as an innocent singular example. But this is not the case. On a daily basis, people ask the same questions (how do I hook up xyz? how do I do this? how do I configure that?), have the same requests (when is regen added? when is this added? when is this fixed?) and perhaps the same complaints (why is this video 2 hours long? why don't I immediately receive an answer?).

All of this takes substantial energy and motivation, even if you think that is was just a simple question or a small request. The way of putting a request is not changing what the request is about. The core of what you want happening is that someone takes their time (while this someone not being yourself), going through the Release Notes or even the code and documenting it in the Wiki.
You want to phrase the request as if it was just a mere innocent question, but, as you admitted in your "too rude to be posted publicly" private message that you have no intention to learn how to contribute to the wiki. You claim not to know the inner workings, meanwhile you are part of the Patreon Discord server. You CHOSE not to know and you CHOSE not to contribute.

johu wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:06 am Thanks very much for writing this up - again.

If anyone feels harassed let one of the admins know. We can flag a warning and ultimately ban people who suck energy off the creative crowd.

To whoever thought it was a good idea to be rude: Chop wood if you have a bad day.