&gt; Please, to save your own time and energy (if not the time and energy of other people) search for a solution before you build one. Only if you have found the two or three solutions that the community likes most and you are still unsatisfied, only then start coding.<p>I hope no-one reading this thread gets the impression that most open-source software engineers would agree with this. That&#x27;s one of the beauties of the ecosystem -- everyone can code and publish what they damn well want.<p>&gt; I really want to support open source efforts. But I really can&#x27;t if there&#x27;s a project developed without any googling before the first line of code.<p>How is your &quot;support&quot; of open source software negatively impacted by this, as you perceive it, malpractice? It makes choice of OSS solutions harder for you?