{"id":47,"date":"2010-01-28T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2010-01-28T09:08:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T13:08:17","slug":"how-to-discourage-a-project-contributor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/how-to-discourage-a-project-contributor\/","title":{"rendered":"How to discourage a project contributor"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Replace all of the contributor&#8217;s code in one large commit<\/li>\n<li>Use none of the original code in the new revision<\/li>\n<li>Include thousands of lines of code churn in addition to the multi-thousand line rewrite in the commit<\/li>\n<li>Use a commit message like &#8220;more changes&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Do all of the above with no advance notice whatsoever<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seriously.  Who does this?  <i>Why?<\/i>  Do some people simply have no concept of proper project management and good development practices?  I&#8217;ve just lost all of my willpower to keep trying to improve the project because apparently I&#8217;ve been maintaining a component that was being replaced without my knowledge!  Guh.  So frustrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replace all of the contributor&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/how-to-discourage-a-project-contributor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}