Open Source PR Rejected With Maximum Politeness After Significant Effort

Description

A mobile screenshot of a GitHub pull request titled 'feat: Plan mode' on the google-gemini/gemini-cli repository. A collaborator named jacob314 posted a comment thanking @linegel for their hard work, saying they will 'definitely take everything you did in this PR under consideration' as they work to implement plan mode, and that they'll 'loop you in as we start to have PRs ready for review.' However, the comment then states they 'unfortunately won't be able to accept this PR' due to 'a lot of nuances to how this will need to be implemented.' The collaborator also mentions adding a lock emoji 'maintainer only' label to certain issues to clarify which contributions won't be accepted. At the bottom, the PR is shown as 'closed with unmerged commits' by jacob314. The screenshot was taken at 22:31 with Slack notification visible in the status bar

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Translation: 'We love your free labor, we'll steal the ideas, but the actual commit authorship? That's maintainer only.' The corporate open-source playbook, page 1

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Translation: 'We love your free labor, we'll steal the ideas, but the actual commit authorship? That's maintainer only.' The corporate open-source playbook, page 1
@cooldude4642 7mo

"fuck off" label just dropped
Max 7mo

I can imagine this hurt a bit.
@SamsonovAnton 7mo

Is this the same Google that requires an officially signed clearance for submitting your code? One must be really motivated to pass through all this, not to mention the actual code review which may result in multiple iterations of refactoring the submission.
1. dev_meme 7mo
  
  I was fine with it As well as total close of PR to be honest Typically I only care about work being done and done properly
@adm877 7mo

I don't understand. Is it that from their pov your PR sucks but the first paragraph is corporate correctness?
1. dev_meme 7mo
  
  Nah, they just didn’t had any specs anywhere for that feature But plan mode is absolutely essential for anyone doing vibe coding with serious face Aaand, instead of moving in at least some iterations they decided that they will prefer to not have it for now at all and handle it by themselves It’s not that bad idea actually, the real problem is that this feature is still missing
@RiedleroD 7mo

lmao
@RiedleroD 7mo

F tho
@b7sum 7mo

F
@NickNirus 7mo

F
dev_meme 7mo

Plot twist: no one ever heard any feedback from UX team since then 🥲
1. @RiedleroD 7mo
  
  common big corpo "open source" problem
  
  @RiedleroD 7mo
  
  not contributing to mastodon anymore for this exact reason. and they're not even that large, especially back when I still contributed
  
  dev_meme 7mo
  
  At least Google guys are all over social networks and they actually talked to me in DMs on Twitter and LinkedIn (don’t judge the platform choice, it’s not a point)
  
  dev_meme 7mo
  
  I’m intrigued if they will actually "loop me in" once they will start work on this epic
@chekoopa 7mo

"cам решу~" ("i'll deci~de") I mean, they just want to do some important features by themselves, taking much more time than by free labor... But yeah, UX, they definitely should make a couple of dozens of meetings about that, sure.
@jesters_p 7mo

"The worst she can say is no" 🥀