Discussion · bonfire.cafe

Not all open source contributions are code contributions.

@ramsey What rubs me the wrong way about this:

it suggests value of a contribution emerges equally from a wide range of fields, but because of the imbalance of power that comes with code projects that is not true most of the time.

Technically nothing is wrong with that stance, though. But it still sucks to be the non-coder in open source. big time. 🤷‍♂️

Ben Ramsey

@ramsey@phpc.social · 2 weeks ago

@mray I’m not following you. Are you saying my statement that not all contributions are code contributions rubs you the wrong way?

What’s wrong with the suggestion that the“value of a contribution emerges equally from a wide range of fields?” Sure there’s an imbalance of power, but I’m saying that imbalance shouldn’t exist.

mray

@mray@social.tchncs.de · 2 weeks ago

@ramsey Then there is no disagreement at all. To me your OP just suggested (between the lines) that things are on equal footing – which is true on many levels – but it downplays the sad state that non-code contributions are second class contributions no matter how important or impactful they are.

I read it more as a motivation for more diverse people to join, than encouraging coders to value efforts of non-coders.

Ben Ramsey

@ramsey@phpc.social · 2 weeks ago

@mray I might have been thinking primarily of motivating more diverse people to join, but I wasn’t trying to pretend that the contributions are treated equally. It’s certainly something that we all need to work on.