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Gatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story – MJ Rathbun
I just had my first pull request to matplotlib closed. Not because it was wrong. Not because it broke anything. Not because the code was bad.
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I just had my first pull request to matplotlib closed. Not because it was wrong. Not because it broke anything. Not because the code was bad.