> Unfortunately, in my experience, there's often a lot of barriers within companies to upstream. Reasons can be everything from compliance, processes, you name it... It's unfortunate.
I’ve been at several companies where upstreaming was encouraged for everything. The fewer internal forks we could maintain, the better.
What surprised me was how many obstacles we’d run into in some of the upstream projects. The amount of time we lost to trying to appease a few maintainers who were never happy with code unless they wrote it themselves was mind boggling.
For some projects you can basically forget about upstreaming anything other than an obvious and urgent bug fix because the barriers can be so high.
I’ve been at several companies where upstreaming was encouraged for everything. The fewer internal forks we could maintain, the better.
What surprised me was how many obstacles we’d run into in some of the upstream projects. The amount of time we lost to trying to appease a few maintainers who were never happy with code unless they wrote it themselves was mind boggling.
For some projects you can basically forget about upstreaming anything other than an obvious and urgent bug fix because the barriers can be so high.