🙋🏽‍♀️ [Survey] GitHub contributor experience

[samhouts]

.NET MAUI Community! We want to hear from YOU!

Last year, we asked you for your feedback, and we heard that you wanted more transparency on what we're working on, better instructions for getting started, and more videos showing you how to work in the repository! As a result, we added the MAUI SDK Ongoing project, updated our getting started documentation, and upped our YouTube game. Have you seen these??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LRfy6Omp9I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxdApcTMjz8

Now, we're asking you again to let us know how we're doing as maintainers. Fill out the survey in the link below and tell us what you think.

Whether you've been involved for years or you're relatively new, please tell us about your experience participating and contributing to the project. It should only take a few minutes, and you can answer for up to 3 repos:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8KTX9VT?Source=dotnet/maui

[Xyncgas]

I wish github makes it easier, for me to search stuffs up in .NET source code (like https://source.dot.net/), then make the change and sumbit change as PR all in one go online

even better yet, let me search up codes by using F12 reference navigation in Visual Studio, modify the .NET library then one click to submit change which opens up a window to ask me to also fill in additional information like why are you making this PR etc

even better yet, you can define your own testing / requirement for me to run locally before I can submit a PR to you, so it checks whether it compiles whether it's good enough and I can put my reputation on the line based on what I am seeing

Meanwhile I don't like how everything is politic 🙋🏽‍♀️, there is no racism com'on you guys, people have to earn others respect just like we have to earn for everything.

It's not the inbalance of resource that we are struggling with, poor people can have a nice day because they are having everything going well in their life while rich people can have a bad day because things are not going so well for them you see we are all trying to make our life better so it's about whether we are making things better or things are getting worse it's not about what we have that part is for us to enjoy and we're taught by our parents to be humble and not to be jealous of what others have so com'on

[Xyncgas]

Since we are working so hard to maintain projects for our users, we can have a 'sponsored' section of issues in our repositories that we can work on first, while clients can give more money if they want the issue to be fixed faster than others. Since we have limited resources, if a bug is causing a company to lose millions monthly then they are willing to pay 1 million for you to get it fixed this week, it helps both sides on what to focus and we are rewarded on both sides to get what we need. We can also out source some of these issue for free lancers out there who are willing to fix it and whoever fixed it the fastest claims the price this way we can create an entire industry of bug hunters and you can now hire a bunch bounty hunters for your product if you are a very rich company instead of facing 2k issues daily

[Ghostbird]

Since we are working so hard to maintain projects for our users, we can have a 'sponsored' section of issues in our repositories that we can work on first, while clients can give more money if they want the issue to be fixed faster than others. Since we have limited resources, if a bug is causing a company to lose millions monthly then they are willing to pay 1 million for you to get it fixed this week, it helps both sides on what to focus and we are rewarded on both sides to get what we need. We can also out source some of these issue for free lancers out there who are willing to fix it and whoever fixed it the fastest claims the price this way we can create an entire industry of bug hunters and you can now hire a bunch bounty hunters for your product if you are a very rich company instead of facing 2k issues daily

I think the idea may have merit, but your argumentation is faulty. A company that loses millions monthly because of a bug in an Open Source repo will not sponsor it for a lot of money. That's ineffective compared to the sensible alternative, donate manpower. This might not apply in all cases, but in the case of MAUI, the software is written in C# .NET and the users are mostly developers that use C# .NET, so it's a good fit. See for example #12766. This was preventing Android 13 releases for everyone who wanted to take a picture. Once I'd proven to my boss that it was a bug in MAUI, and not in our code, I told him we could for now build using Android API 32, but I could probably fix it within a few hours and make a PR. He approved, and it will be in the next release.