On Tue, 27 Sept 2022 at 21:22, Peter Kjellerstedt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Not drive-by patches to fix your specific product problems, > > I'm sorry to hear that you think all I do is drive-by patches. > I thought my contributions were a little bit more appreciated > than that. :( They are appreciated like any contribution is, but let me clarify: anything that is not a part of a long term commitment to maintaining some piece is a drive-by patch. If you're not sure what needs a maintainer, let me remind you of that as well: https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/tree/MAINTAINERS.md > > but upstream proper: something that makes the project sustainable, > > e.g. fixing medium+/high bugs, working on new features, upgrading > > recipes, sending pending patches upstream. This works never ends, and > > no one wants to do it. > > And I can assure you that everyone appreciate the ungrateful > work you and others do to keep things running. We really do. You should understand the gravity of my situation as an independent consultant, Peter. I constantly have to explain to my clients why fixing their custom internal crap (that benefits only them) is not always my top priority. Last week, I had to essentially blackmail a client that pays real money, saying that I will not do any further work for them, until they allow me to spend time upstream, and allow me to bill them for it. I am still waiting for an answer. The timing was poor as well, on the same day my friends and relatives in my home country started getting draft notices to what is likely to be useless deaths. Alex
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