Some are certainly long enough or quibble-over-terminology enough to make a Trot paper blush… though they are usually a fair bit better on the signal to noise ratio, unless a maintainer’s having an ideological rant they’re often only long because software is complicated.
And the readmes, issue posts, and notes on merges are sort of like newspapers if you squint hard enough, too.
Some are certainly long enough or quibble-over-terminology enough to make a Trot paper blush… though they are usually a fair bit better on the signal to noise ratio, unless a maintainer’s having an ideological rant they’re often only long because software is complicated.