Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Brett Cannon <brett <at> python.org> writes: >> Trust me, if you are doing open source for >> anything other than altruistic reasons you are bound to be >> disappointed. > > I'm surprised by this statement but perhaps it's a matter of vocabulary. > Having fun and doing things you like to do does not strike me as "altruistic". > Being involved in a FOSS project is not the same as participating in a > charity.
I'd agree that 'altruism' isn't quite the right word - there's also the fact that plenty of folks these days contribute to open source because someone is paying them to :) However, Brett's basic point that good input may sometimes go uncredited through no fault of the poster's remains valid. Patches and particularly good bug reports/suggestions get credited in commit messages and sometimes NEWS items and the What's New, significant patches generally earn a mention in the ACKS file and each PEP usually has an acknowledgement section that lists major contributors to the associated discussion and reviews. Posts (even well-thought out ones) on the various discussion lists? Not so much - it's too easy to lose track of who posted what in an involved discussion. The highest respect you can really earn in those is to make a valid point clearly enough that you convince others to adopt your point of view. Although sometimes you can still persuade others even when you later turn out to be wrong* ;) Cheers, Nick. * See a couple of the footnotes to PEP 343 if you want to know what that smiley is about :) -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com