... or how our usual style of dispute can sometimes deter help from the community.
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9912 In this PR, there's a lot of discussions going on, a bit back an forth, about the right way to do things, and what does what like what other thing and so on. This is often our modus operandi, and it has often given us pretty good quality code (or at least, so we hope), even though it can be a bit exhausting at times. I would like to emphasise that I think this is absolutely fine... when it's among us who have been along for a bit, perhaps have come to know each other a bit more and have some kind of sense of our respective strengths and weaknesses, or even with someone that has shown they can handle this type of discussion. However, in pull requests like the one cited, where the associated issue is marked "good first issue", and the author has done quite well what was asked from the issue, it can be quite unexpected, not to say overwhelming to be met with this discussion style that could be seen as getting out of proportion. A "good first issue" is supposed to be a bite size thing after all, and I fear that if this is how we welcome new contributors, they might more often than not choose to step away from it all. So maybe let's be a little more careful with contributions for "good first issue" and potential newcomers, yeah? Cheers, Richard -- Richard Levitte levi...@openssl.org OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/