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Comment by Aeolun

5 years ago

> The space between is a desert.

Who’s going to put in all the time to learn to understand a repo, only to make a small change. At that point you might as well keep going.

Larger open source projects tend to fare better; especially well-documented projects with many small components. I can think of projects such as Django and Wine, both of which very often get small-to-medium contributions from drive-by devs who want to fix "that itch".