From 1c86f9c6fbce7e845e7dac1d8fa99e3525d3440c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukas Eder Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 11:55:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update CONTRIBUTING.md --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 5b42581bdc..4e91b0ed76 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -20,6 +20,12 @@ First and foremost, from our experience, most contributors are overlooking a ton - thinking about the many places in the manual that need to be updated - thinking about the fact that jOOQ is dual licensed, and your contribution won't work on commercial database (but it has to, so that'll be our job again) +Plus: + +- the tests aren't open source, so you can't validate your own contribution, nor prove that it is sound, via tests +- the manual isn't open source, so you can't contribute that +- the commercial distributions aren't open source, and perhaps, the implementation there needs to be different + Often, workarounds are good enough ----------------------------------