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> I'm not mad, I don't think you're bad people, but the least y'all can do is be honest with us how entitled can someone be, you have the source code, if you'r

> I'm not mad, I don't think you're bad people, but the least y'all can do is be honest with us how entitled can someone be, you have the source code, if you're not happy why not contributing yourself? It is like some people don't realize most of these projects are other people working for free on their free time and giving that for free to anyone that feels like using it

theamk 7y ago
Because only one person can make a release. That’s exactly the complaint: people have been contributing, a lot.. but the maintainer won’t release the contribution. How would you feel if your fixed the bug patch more than two years ago, your PR was accepted.. but users still do not have the fix?
- tsukurimashou 7y ago
  I wouldn't feel a thing, I would release the patch on my own fork and people would be free to merge my patch to their own fork or use mine as a base. It requires more work sure, but how would you solve that problem? People have their life, they can work hard on some project then drop it and never touch it again. You cannot force people willingly giving their time away for other people to do it all their life.
  - theamk 7y ago
    Do you think that a trivial, 4-line commit to README saying "this project is no longer maintained, look elsewhere" is too much to ask? I agree that you cannot force people to give their time away, and anyone can, and should be able to, stop maintaining any project they have. But putting "I am done" notice will likely take under 30 minutes, and will help a lot of people. It's a good idea to do it just out of respect to all those people who spent their time crafting those 669 commits which will never get to release now.
    - tsukurimashou 7y ago
      project maintainers are not your bitch, a lot of things can happen that could make them not add that line

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> I'm not mad, I don't think you're bad people, but the least y'all can do is be honest with us how entitled can someone be, you have the source code, if you'r

by tsukurimashou 7y ago

theamk 7y ago
Because only one person can make a release. That’s exactly the complaint: people have been contributing, a lot.. but the maintainer won’t release the contribution. How would you feel if your fixed the bug patch more than two years ago, your PR was accepted.. but users still do not have the fix?
- tsukurimashou 7y ago
  I wouldn't feel a thing, I would release the patch on my own fork and people would be free to merge my patch to their own fork or use mine as a base. It requires more work sure, but how would you solve that problem? People have their life, they can work hard on some project then drop it and never touch it again. You cannot force people willingly giving their time away for other people to do it all their life.
  - theamk 7y ago
    Do you think that a trivial, 4-line commit to README saying "this project is no longer maintained, look elsewhere" is too much to ask? I agree that you cannot force people to give their time away, and anyone can, and should be able to, stop maintaining any project they have. But putting "I am done" notice will likely take under 30 minutes, and will help a lot of people. It's a good idea to do it just out of respect to all those people who spent their time crafting those 669 commits which will never get to release now.
    - tsukurimashou 7y ago
      project maintainers are not your bitch, a lot of things can happen that could make them not add that line