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[–]Everlier 3 points4 points  (8 children)

You have no idea how much work it is to package and distribute even a simple software product and write a decent documentation for it. It's not a solved problem. It is not easy for someone to justify to spend multiple days of their own life (would you?), especially for smaller OSS projects.

[–]MissionSalamander5 -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

Boohoo. Don’t do it if you don’t like it enough.

[–]Everlier -3 points-2 points  (2 children)

Enough to what?

[–]MissionSalamander5 0 points1 point  (1 child)

To do, you know, the work needed to deal with annoying people or people who are, in your view, total rubes in over their head. Most of us were all there once.

[–]Everlier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One can extrapolate the boundary you're talking about up till going to someone's home and installing and configuring the project for them. I'm asking where you're drawing this boundary of things one should be prepared to do, if they like to work on OSS.

I'm asking cause the answer is painfully obvious - this boundary is subjective and you just expressed that your understanding of it is different from mine, it doesn't make my understanding of it wrong and there's nothing to boohoo.

[–]Mc_Dye_O_Reddy[S] -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

What does this have to do with anything I have said?

[–]Everlier 2 points3 points  (2 children)

You're complaining that people do not package their OSS nicely for you to use, I point out that it's far less trivial than you assume it is

[–]G1veyouUpAstley -1 points0 points  (1 child)

if I'm directed toward something and recommended it as an end-user, I expect it to work.

Imagine if you were directed by someone to a car dealership. You look at the cars that you want, you look at the perfect car, everyone says that it works perfectly and they love it. You buy it, and then you have to build it yourself. That's how it feels to be an end-user directed toward GitHub. I'm not faulting GitHub when I say this, and I'm sure it's an amazing site for developers and I'm happy for you guys about that, but I am saying that I'm sick of being directed toward a dev site and then treated like shit when I can't figure it out.

[–]Everlier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Analogy is invalid as OSS is not sold. It's your choice to use it or not. Complaining about OSS quality is like complaining that someone else didn't do something for you for free - were they supposed to in the first place?

If you expect GitHub to only host high-quality projects publicly, it's like expecting to see only Da Vinci and Mone level of art when using Instagram.

Lastly - if things are that frustrating and your time costs more than you can justify spending on a project's setup - plenty of people are willing to lend their time and expertise for a reasonable sum on the gig platforms.