The code of conduct at the Maintainers Summit
The code of conduct at the Maintainers Summit
Posted Oct 25, 2018 17:56 UTC (Thu) by bfields (subscriber, #19510)In reply to: The code of conduct at the Maintainers Summit by dunlapg
Parent article: The code of conduct at the Maintainers Summit
My guess is that Peter feels obligated, by his position as maintainer, to continue to review all submitted patches -- including those from people who continually ignore his feedback
Eh, I think your obligation is to the project, not to random difficult contributors.
I don't know, it's hard to discuss in the abstract. The intersection of "capable of providing some value to the project" and "completely ignores clear feedback" sounds rather small, and I'm not thinking of any examples.
The more frequent case is that it's one of those technical disputes where people are just talking past each other. And in that case it's easy to get caught up in the back and forth and fail to understand something the other person's saying, and regardless of which one's in the right, both often come away with the impression that the other is intentionally refusing to listen, even though that's not exactly what's going on.
I really think the best you can do in that case sometimes is just to drop the subject, and if they ignore clear requests to do that, at some point it's more effective just to stop responding.