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The sense of entitlement people have of open-source projects is ridiculous, ESPECIALLY if they haven’t contributed to it.

mikekchar 8y ago
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- deleted 8y ago
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- sandov 8y ago
  >I've grown tired of continuously defending my inactivity and decisions against trolls on Twitter, the issue tracker, and elsewhere. It's draining and I don't have the patience or energy to deal with it any longer. These same people expect to impose their short-sighted and non-generalized values and goals on a project for which they have contributed nothing and are not willing to maintain. The sense of entitlement from a small but vocal minority that do not understand FOSS and refuse to understand it is very much a concern, and I'm simply not interested in shrugging that off anymore.
  - mikekchar 8y ago
    Thanks! I read it a couple of times and missed it each time. It was before my coffee, so I guess I'll blame that.
- davidmurdoch 8y ago
  It's from the announcement: > These same people expect to impose their short-sighted and non-generalized values and goals on a project for which they have contributed nothing and are not willing to maintain. The sense of entitlement from a small but vocal minority that do not understand FOSS...
ravenstine 8y ago
I couldn't agree more. However, couldn't this project have been handed off to new owners or simply left dormant rather than be archived? I guess it can be forked, but the upgrade path for existing users would be less clear.
- sct202 8y ago
  Judging by the github contributors page there were really only 2 major contributors (including the author), so slim pickings to find a new leader.
- Hello71 8y ago
  https://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/issues/1881 https://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/issues/1881 was open for more than a year. There were some proposals, but I assume that all of them imposed conditions that the author considered unacceptable. For such a large project, there is no such thing as dormant, only rotting. Archiving makes this status clear to potential users.

mikekchar 8y ago

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sandov 8y ago
>I've grown tired of continuously defending my inactivity and decisions against trolls on Twitter, the issue tracker, and elsewhere. It's draining and I don't have the patience or energy to deal with it any longer. These same people expect to impose their short-sighted and non-generalized values and goals on a project for which they have contributed nothing and are not willing to maintain. The sense of entitlement from a small but vocal minority that do not understand FOSS and refuse to understand it is very much a concern, and I'm simply not interested in shrugging that off anymore.
- mikekchar 8y ago
  Thanks! I read it a couple of times and missed it each time. It was before my coffee, so I guess I'll blame that.
davidmurdoch 8y ago
It's from the announcement: > These same people expect to impose their short-sighted and non-generalized values and goals on a project for which they have contributed nothing and are not willing to maintain. The sense of entitlement from a small but vocal minority that do not understand FOSS...

ravenstine 8y ago

I couldn't agree more. However, couldn't this project have been handed off to new owners or simply left dormant rather than be archived? I guess it can be forked, but the upgrade path for existing users would be less clear.

sct202 8y ago
Judging by the github contributors page there were really only 2 major contributors (including the author), so slim pickings to find a new leader.
Hello71 8y ago
https://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/issues/1881 https://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/issues/1881 was open for more than a year. There were some proposals, but I assume that all of them imposed conditions that the author considered unacceptable. For such a large project, there is no such thing as dormant, only rotting. Archiving makes this status clear to potential users.