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[–] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Jellyfin is the o ly OSS project I've walked away from a change. It was a simple exception thrown that could be ignored in very specific circumstances that I remember. I wrote up the change, left several lines of comments, looked up code style, files the bug and PR in the proper way and... Rejected.

My 2 or 3 line PR was nitpicked to hell, I think the fourth round of reviews I just walked away. It wasn't worth it for me at that point.

So I'm not entirely surprised that they're feeling burnout. It seemed exhausting getting anything done.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I never had the feeling the Jellyfin devs were were interested in outside contributions or ideas. A lot of the discussion in issues quickly gets passive aggressive from their side.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I'm hopeful that changes. I know big projects require stronger leadership, but watching the comments on things made me feel like smaller OSS devs were like me and felt discouraged from helping out.

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