Questions tagged [problem-contributor]

Questions about contributors to open source projects who appear to do more harm than good to the project.

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What is proper way to reject contributors for a complex project, based on their skill level, to save on coaching effort?

Our team is thinking to call for volunteers to solve an advanced problem in an open source project. The solution for the problem will take collaboration, prototyping and number of pull requests. And, ...
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How to deal with a very productive contributor who wants to steer the project in a different direction?

I am part of a non-commercial bazaar-style open source project which is developed and maintained entirely by unpaid volunteers. A few months ago a new programmer joined our team who is both skilled ...
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Can a LGPL project use contributed code after the original contributor withdrew it and was banned from the project?

"Project A" is released under LGPL ver 2.1 or, at user's discretion, above. This project is part of a bigger platform. "Contributor A" submitted a highly-popular merge request to ...
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How can I mitigate or avoid clashes with project maintainers over my bug report(s)?

We keep hearing about the ungrateful job of OSS maintainers and the arrogant users with a huge sense of entitlement demanding slave work for free. While I do sympathise with this sentiment, there are ...
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Example of open source project that has had legal problems with contributors claiming any kind of right over their contribution?

I'm doing some research about Contributor Licensing Agreements (CLAs) and I was wondering if they are not an overkill. I will probably end up using them in the project I work with because I prefer to ...
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How do I deal with (enthusiastic) contributors who damage more than they help?

From time to time, an open source project will attract contributors who have a lot of enthusiasm, but lack skill, knowledge (or patience to know the project). These contributors can cause clutter, put ...