@jonny 100% to the general sentiment, but like every lazy system, this incentivizes unwanted behavior, i.e. to maximize coauthorship through mundane contributions that perfectly follow protocol.
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@jonny 100% to the general sentiment, but like every lazy system, this incentivizes unwanted behavior, i.e. to maximize coauthorship through mundane contributions that perfectly follow protocol. 1 comment
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@herrsaalfeld
I dont see why thats unwanted. If the changes are helpful and get merged, what do I care that the person is also helpful to 1000 other projects in a small way? That seems like good behavior to encourage. Its the fault of authorship being a broken metric that it cant distinguish size of contribution, and heightening that contradiction rather than discouraging collaboration to fit it also is a good thing