Indian community on Open Source
As this Didi Bhaiya’s are asking to do hands on Open source, people are complaining about raising unnecessary PR’s and quality degradation.
What do you think about this?
boredcoder
Freelancer9mo
Whole situation is stupid, influencers should have taken care while teaching.
Not blaming the people, they will do anything if someone suggests way to get job or noticed. Specially in such times.
anonymous1
Unemployed9mo
blaming the entire thing on video creator is also wrong. I watched the video, she no where encouraged students for open source or told them that open source would bring them jobs. It was a simple git/github tutorial. Moreover, the video is 5 months old, which implies the spam is coming from one particular group of students maybe from the same college/some other coaching etc. It's more the students' fault than the video creator's fault.
boredcoder
Freelancer9mo
This incident is happening since many years when people started recomending contributing to open source as a way to get job/noticed.
This recent readme incident got blown up because on Twitter started complaining and primegen made video on it.
Open source maintainers have been complaining about fake/low quality PR since last 3-4 years
ProfProcrastinator
Subex Ltd9mo
It's a mess. And it creates a negative image of Indian software engineers. And the amount of spam...oof. take a look at express js PRs. https://github.com/expressjs/express/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
Rickc137
Startup9mo
Yea full of "updated Readme.md"
ProfProcrastinator
Subex Ltd9mo
The problem is that there are way too many people trying to get into IT because it pays well.. and the current job market being what it is, people turn to YouTube on how to get in. And these influencers who maybe got into fanng companies from campus recruitment during 21-22 are trying to sell courses on how to get in.. and minting money. Someone over on reddit calculated an estimated 10cr revenue for one such popular influencer who has paid courses. Makes sense why they left their faang sde role in just 8 months. Selling courses on how they got the job nets a whole lot more.
corporate_pawn
Stealth9mo
Pehle khud video banake baacho ko misguide kro and phir aur ek video banake bolo ki baache kitne *** hai🤡
baatli_wala
Amazon9mo
YouTube Influencers has made this situation a mess. First they made the content promoting open source as a way to get job, now they are making content on why not to open source.
ProProcrastinator
Stealth9mo
I think we should change it to make “meaningful” updates and not just updates. Ppl teaching this in videos need to add a disclaimer advising folks not to do this senselessly.
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