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Should you accept a pull request from a very bad person?

4 pointsby libovnessover 6 years ago

3 comments

sundbryover 6 years ago
In the end, I don&#x27;t think you actually answered your original question?<p>I&#x27;d say do what you will, and if you reject their code, they&#x27;ll probably be fine living on in a fork of your project. Personally, I wouldn&#x27;t mind using code from someone I disagreed with, because in the end, our common interest in a piece of software might be one thing that brings two opposing parties together, rather than divides them apart.
caymanjimover 6 years ago
From Part II of this:<p>&gt; What to do with a contributor to your open-source project who turns out to be a very bad person—is worth contrasting with what would unfold were you his manager at a firm: You&#x27;d fire the person.<p>You&#x27;d better be damn careful about that. It&#x27;s illegal in New York, for example, to fire someone for their (legal) associations outside of work, when not representing the company. If they say something objectionable to a coworker, you&#x27;re probably fine. But you can&#x27;t fire someone for being a member of an objectionable group or taking part in a protest or anything remotely like that unless they somehow represent the company while engaging in the objectionable activity.
HaoZekeover 6 years ago
Click bait