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		benmccann on Dec 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk More contributors means more work for the project maintainers since it's more code they have to review, discuss, and commit. Very often the maintainers don't care about bug fixes or enhancements if it's not for something that's impacting their work.

mion on Dec 14, 2012 [–]

How can bug fixes and enhancements not impact their work?

jeremyjh on Dec 14, 2012 | [–]

Any number of reasons. It could be a platform specific issue, a feature they don't use, something they don't consider a real problem.

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