I propose a day, once a quarter, where the team maintaining an open source project sits down with a new user and silently watches them try to compile it, using only the instructions on the website.
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Greg Knauss (gknauss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 07:42:13 JST
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The Duke of Fall :d12: (valthonis@dice.camp)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 07:42:11 JST
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@gknauss Helping by being a dick is a storied tradition in many open source projects, to be fair…
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Greg Knauss (gknauss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 07:42:12 JST
Greg Knauss
Yes, yes, I should be contributing. I know. I’m helping by being a dick.
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James Morris (jmorris@social.kernel.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 02:17:33 JST
James Morris
@gknauss Certainly for projects which are well-funded.
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