Comment by nddrylliog
15 years ago
So how do we solve this problem in the OSS world?
I've had my share of problems when leading open-source projects, and I remember a few particularly troublesome contributors, who made many others run away and generally decreased the quality as a whole of software, but Drepper seems to be of a considerably greater magnitude.
Is there any proper way to deal with this?
Perhaps http://producingoss.com/en/difficult-people.html could give you some insight. I much recommend this book as a guide to the basics and best practices of running an open-source project - it certainly helped me when I started.
I don't necessarily agree with everything there, and in reality every case is different - but it's always good to read the experiences of others.