# Pose

Author: Zack M. Davis
Originally published: 2016-06-04
Category: philosophy
Tags: Rust
Canonical URL: https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/Jun/pose/

[![terminal screenshot comparing rustc warning text before and after the proposed lint change](https://zackmdavis.net/blog/images/stable_features_version_lint_before_and_after-300x151.png)](https://zackmdavis.net/blog/images/stable_features_version_lint_before_and_after.png)

I used to look down on posers who submit some contrived one-off trivial patch to a big, famous project like Django or whatever, sheerly for the glamor and ego-gratification of being able to say, "_I'm_ a contributor to _Django_." I thought that if it wasn't a fix that you needed for your own work and you're not going to be a seriously involved contributor, it's more dignified to only work on your personal projects (which would be more authentic) or some non-super-famous but still widely-used library (which would have more socially-useful unfinished work left).

Then I landed [a patch](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/06c9e0f5) in the Rust compiler.

And it is _so ego-gratifying_!! But maybe now I have to submit a bunch more patches in order to prove—in order to _be_—a seriously involved contributor rather than a mere poser??