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No, it's a bad idea, for all the reasons the "it's a bad idea" commenter on GitHub mentions.
Include requests for contributors/contributions in a file like CONTRIBUTING or README if you want. Putting it in something like logs is just spam.
Literally spam.
I get why they think it's ok. I mean, it's not like a constant nagging pop-up, and only the targetted audience (the developer or the admin of the server) will see it.
But it's not ok as far as I'm concerned. Would you like to see adverts for Tomcat in your Apache error logs?
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No, it's a bad idea, for all the reasons the "it's a bad idea" commenter on GitHub mentions.
Include requests for contributors/contributions in a file like
CONTRIBUTINGorREADMEif you want. Putting it in something like logs is just spam.Literally spam.
I get why they think it's ok. I mean, it's not like a constant nagging pop-up, and only the targetted audience (the developer or the admin of the server) will see it.
But it's not ok as far as I'm concerned. Would you like to see adverts for Tomcat in your Apache error logs?