Questions about GitHub contributions

  • Resolved frzsombor

    (@frzsombor)


    8 months, 4 weeks ago

    Hello again,
    About two weeks ago, I posted a question regarding GitHub contributions. I thought it would be in the right place here and could be useful for others in the community as well. I feel that I didn’t write anything offensive, it was a genuinely kind and curious post. For a week and a half, there was no response, and I just noticed that my question was simply deleted. I’m not here to complain, your answers to my questions are still much more important to me, but I must say that I feel pretty bad now. I try to be an active member of the Open Source community and came here with a helpful and kind intention, and you didn’t even deem it worthy of a response. I am honestly confused by the situation. I actually try to believe that it was deleted by mistake, so now, for the last time, I am pasting my previous message from search engine cache. However, if you still feel the questions I am asking do not serve the community’s interests or you do not like it in any way, please delete it again, but I’m asking you to please at least respect me with a response, that I will get in email, even if you remove this topic right after it. I will not send this message again because I do not want to spam you. If you respond and the topic can remain, I kindly ask a moderator to delete this part from my message.
    My previous message was the following:

    Hi there,

    First of all, I want to thank Tom ( @edge22 ) and the whole Generate team for creating such an incredibly useful plugin and theme. I truly appreciate your work and you have truly innovated web development and created an incredibly high-quality product.

    To express my gratitude and help as much as I can, I’ve recently submitted 3 bug reports, 2 feature requests, and corresponding 2 pull requests on GitHub to GeneratePress and GenerateBlocks. These contributions were made with the hope of enhancing the plugin and assisting you and the community. However, while it’s true that only a week has passed since my first contribution, and I don’t want to appear impatient, but I’ve noticed that other contributions from fellow developers also seem to receive very little to zero feedback.

    I understand that maintaining such projects, especially those that are partially free, requires significant effort and time. My intention with this message is not to criticize, but to seek clarity on a few points:

    1. Reviews:?Could you please shed some light on how often the GitHub repositories are reviewed? Are there specific times when the team looks at the contributions?
    2. Feedback on Submissions:?It would be really helpful to receive some feedback to know that our submissions are at least being looked at. This would encourage continued contributions and help manage our expectations.
    3. Future of Contributions:?Do you see community contributions, like bug reports and feature requests, being integrated into future updates? Are they considered useful and beneficial for the project, or does development proceed according to your own plans and schedule?

    I believe that providing this transparency would greatly encourage more contributions from the community and help us all feel more connected and engaged with the project.

    It’s amazing to see how quickly you respond to everything here on Support Threads, often within 24 hours. In my humble opinion, GitHub should be equally important because it’s not just users seeking help there, but rather people trying to assist you in improving the plugin.

    I look forward to your response and am eager to keep contributing to this project.
    Feel free to contact me if I can help you with anything.

    Best regards,
    Zsombor

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  • Plugin Support ying

    (@yingscarlett)

    Hi there,

    Thanks for reaching out. I am surprised that your post is gone, as I don’t think your post was deleted by anyone from our team. I assigned your post to Tom on Jun 15, it seems he hasn’t got time to read that post yet.

    Not sure what happened, but I’ll forward this post to Tom again ?? And add a reminder this time!

    Plugin Author Tom

    (@edge22)

    Hey Zsombor,

    First, I want to apologize for not getting back to you sooner. I’m not sure what happened to your last topic – I don’t believe our team has the ability to delete posts here on .org.

    We’re currently going through a ton of big changes inside GeneratePress and GenerateBlocks, so we’re very busy internally and within the private repos of the plugins. This can make it hard for people outside of our team to contribute, as they’re obviously not involved in those internal talks about the direction we’re going in.

    I do my best to review all PRs, but it can definitely take some time, as current projects and milestones are our main focus. Whenever I get a free 20 minutes, I check issues and PRs to see if there’s discussion to be had. I’d like to do better on the discussion front, as I agree it would encourage contributions.

    Right now, as we’re undergoing some major architectural changes, it’s not likely that public PRs will be merged unless they’re unrelated to the work we’re doing. Once we get GB 2.0 released, there will be fewer major changes to make, so it will become more likely that PRs will be approved if they fix a bug in the proper way.

    Hope this helps, and sorry again for the delay!

    Thread Starter frzsombor

    (@frzsombor)

    Dear Ying and Tom,

    Now I apologize for the late reply, and thank you both for your responses!

    So really, truly, you didn’t delete my message. I found it so strange that I finally convinced myself, even before your response, that it must have been some moderator error.

    I fully understand that you don’t have time to deal with GitHub alongside such serious background work related to the 2.0 release.

    In the past few weeks, I have seen 1-2 issues/PRs being processed, and I will continue to actively contribute to the projects in the future. But for now, I am really looking forward to the 2.0 release, and until then, I won’t send any minor feature requests, as they might already be included in 2.0.

    I know it’s the hardest question, but is there a rough public ETA for the release?

    Plugin Author Tom

    (@edge22)

    We’re not quite at the point of having an ETA, yet. However, it’s the next thing on our release schedule.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter frzsombor

    (@frzsombor)

    Thanks Tom, keep up the awesome work!

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