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...ah let me explain this a bit first. This "list" was a result of a very unpleasant and annoying discussion way back in the days of QMapShack. The tone it's written in is pretty harsh. But the statements are valid. I could write it a bit more diplomatic but by that it would kind of lose it's entertaining value. That's why I leave it as is. Please, read it with a grain of humor.
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Be a smart ass: You don't have your own open source project? You don't even know the topic in detail? No worries, be yourself and brag about what you think is best for the project. Show real astonishment about why this and that has not been done since whatever time. You can always claim you know better because it's more or less guaranteed that you never have to prove it.
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Poisoned praise: A few warm words of praise are always welcome. But not if you expect something right in exchange. "This is one of the best applications if not the best. But.." If it would be the best application for you, you wouldn't have to request stuff. So spare everyone the shallow words if you bluntly want something. They don't make it better, they make it worse. (Small side fact: In 10 years I got five mails with just a plain thank you. Nothing else, just a thank you. Five incredible valuable mails to me.)
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Software X has it. Why is it missing in your software? Well.... probably because this is software Y and not X. If you want X, use X.
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What is the sense in using your software if there is other software? Damn and I wonder since years why my business plan does not pay off. I knew I made something wrong.
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It can't be really much effort to implement this. Wow, an expert. Sure, if you think so, why didn't you spend the naught of a time and send a patch.
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Why is there no <add stuff that needs resources, licenses or maintenance>. Yes, sorry, please file an issue at our customer help desk for refund.
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It would be so much better if you supply the resources instead of making everyone organizing that stuff on their own. Yes, sure, I like to have it easy, too. But please visit 6).
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My spare time is too valuable than to do... Great, so you think your spare time is more valuable than the one of anyone else? You made my day.
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I haven't spent much time with your software but I have great plans and you have to implement.. Is it really that hard to ask if the software is already able to do what you need, before you squeeze in issues in the tracker? There is my email, there is IRC, there is this mailing list, there are several forums I respond to. The issue tracker is for bugs and requests that have been discussed. Don't spam it with help requests masked as feature request. Or even worse, flagged as bug.
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"It's not working" is not a bug report. A feature request hardly done in one sentence. That text of conduct you get when creating a bug is really meant seriously.
Now, go and give hell to your favorite open source developer! 😉
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