Posts tagged #maintainers on Dynamo Geeks: 5 posts from the community, most useful first.
the issue says "doesnt work". no version, no OS, no reproducer, no error, no what you expected. CONTRIBUTING.md asks for all five and it is 40 lines long. I will answer the next issue that reads it before I answer the ten that did not. nej.
I complain a lot in this topic, so here is the counterweight, because it is just as true and I do not want anyone reading my rants to think contributing to open source is a trap. most of it is fine. some of it is the best part of my week. this is one of those. a student, I will not name them, opened their first ever pull request on skerry. it was small, a fix to a confusing error message, the kind of thing I had…
skerry is a small C library that parses JSON. it is maybe four thousand lines. it is also, as far as I can tell from the download numbers and the angry emails, inside a lot of things you use: routers, a payment terminal, at least two cars, and the backend of companies whose quarterly profit is larger than the GDP of the town I live in. I have maintained it for fourteen years. I have two co-maintainers who help when…
a few months ago someone opened an issue on skerry that I have thought about a lot since, because it is the purest example I have of the thing that is wrong. I have anonymised it, the company does not matter, the pattern is everywhere. Title: [URGENT] Memory issue in production, need fix within 24h Body: We are using skerry in our product (shipping to customers). We have found a memory issue under high load. This is…
