I checked out some of the closed issues/PRs, and yeah, seems like Mike McQuaid can be a little brusque at times, but I didn't see anything that made me think he

I checked out some of the closed issues/PRs, and yeah, seems like Mike McQuaid can be a little brusque at times, but I didn't see anything that made me think he was a "real jerk". I'll say again that it's worth remembering that the maintainers are putting in a tonne of work, dealing with huge volumes of issues and PRs, and doing it all for free, while also working full time jobs and having lives outside of programming. It's necessary for them to write short/quick replies, and if people are being rude (as the one guy was in the PR comments), it's pretty reasonable for the maintainers to be dismissive. Also, I disagree strongly with this sentence: "The fact that MikeMcQuaid is doing this for free does not remove the obligations he has to the community." None of the maintainers have obligations to the community.