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How to discourage a project contributor

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Josh Matthews

Replace all of the contributor’s code in one large commit Use none of the original code in the new revision Include thousands of lines of code churn in addition to the multi-thousand line rewrite in the commit Use a commit … Continue reading →

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Free Software’s Hidden Burden

Posted on December 7, 2008 by Josh Matthews

I’m one of two developers on an open source project.  I’m going to try to be as vague as possible about the project, because the stimulus of this post is some developer politics that aren’t particularly important.  However, some background … Continue reading →

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