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How to Politely Ask for Help from Open-source Contributors and Maintainers

Abdul Malik Ikhsan on March 14, 2017

There are many open-source contributors/maintainers out there. Some of them may look not seem like "patient people", closing issues without comme...
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Luke Bonaccorsi

Also important to mention is that they're not there to teach you how to code or to fix your code. If the docs are poor then fine, mention that the docs are poor but don't post your code and ask how to fix it.

I maintain a promise wrapper for MySQL and often get issues raised by people who either don't understand promises or don't understand MySQL.

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Jess Lee

Thanks for this post - I think it's especially helpful for new contributors to be aware of this etiquette.