[Development] Trouble getting reviews in months and years

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday 6 October 2024 13:41:09 GMT-7 Ilya Fedin wrote:
> There was a thread on the mailing list on how to get new contributors.
> It was discussing problems like simplifying cloning the repo. I'd say
> the problem is not that but just that Qt doesn't really need or want
> contributions. It seems the maintainers are fine with current behavior
> and bugs and don't want any changes (contributions). The icing on the
> cake is that one has to ping for years just to see that the
> contributions aren't really wanted. Although perhaps most contributors
> get that by the reviewers silence itself, I guess a little amount of
> people ping for years or go to mailing list.

You're generalising. The fact that those contributions weren't wanted or were 
misunderstood is not an indication that everyone's contributions will suffer 
the same consequences.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Principal Engineer - Intel DCAI Platform & System Engineering
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