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There are people at the large tech companies who will not only push for a project to make a change they want (including doing all the coding work) but will some

by mfer 6y ago

There are people at the large tech companies who will not only push for a project to make a change they want (including doing all the coding work) but will sometimes get into the space of bullying to try and force someone to do the change for them. I've seen this numerous times.

asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
Would you be so kind as to point to some examples? Presumably this will be visible in a Github issue or something like that, since we're talking about OSS and presumably open issue trackers. FWIW I just went back and did some searching over the faker.js issues and I didn't see any requests that seemed obviously corporate. (I picked faker.js because that article seems to be the most recent inspiration for this discussion on this site.) Most of the non-feature request issues were malformed or from people who obviously don't know what they are doing, but the rest were bugs that could hit big corporate users or hobbyists alike. I didn't see any request that looked like it came from someone working at a FAANG, although I guess it might be hard to tell. The overall number of feature requests filed during the repo's history was only 15.
- wbond 6y ago
  No bullying, but Facebook wanted a change in one of my repos. The engineer said it was important for “security”, but had no motivation to contribute: https://github.com/wbond/asn1crypto/issues/59 https://github.com/wbond/asn1crypto/issues/59. Eventually I ended up having to do the work because other organizations didn’t like that I didn’t bundle 3MB of test fixtures with the releases on PyPi.
  - asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
    Sure, I'm not at all surprised that bigcos make bug reports or feature requests from time to time. This one seems like an issue that was also important to Ubuntu, so a good contribution from them? Or no? And it seems like the person was pretty polite about the request? Admittedly they could have been more specific, but that seems like a generic newb developer issue than a FAANG-specific problem.
    - wbond 6y ago
      I don’t think it is a newb question, they just wanted me to revamp how I release my project and couldn’t be bothered to contribute to the goal.
    - wbond 6y ago
      One thing I would note is that typically engineers from bigger companies tend to email more than leaving public issues on GitHub. Especially in the security space, lots of users tend to seem to not want a public record of their conversation.

by mfer 6y ago

asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago

Would you be so kind as to point to some examples? Presumably this will be visible in a Github issue or something like that, since we're talking about OSS and presumably open issue trackers. FWIW I just went back and did some searching over the faker.js issues and I didn't see any requests that seemed obviously corporate. (I picked faker.js because that article seems to be the most recent inspiration for this discussion on this site.) Most of the non-feature request issues were malformed or from people who obviously don't know what they are doing, but the rest were bugs that could hit big corporate users or hobbyists alike. I didn't see any request that looked like it came from someone working at a FAANG, although I guess it might be hard to tell. The overall number of feature requests filed during the repo's history was only 15.

wbond 6y ago
No bullying, but Facebook wanted a change in one of my repos. The engineer said it was important for “security”, but had no motivation to contribute: https://github.com/wbond/asn1crypto/issues/59 https://github.com/wbond/asn1crypto/issues/59. Eventually I ended up having to do the work because other organizations didn’t like that I didn’t bundle 3MB of test fixtures with the releases on PyPi.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
  Sure, I'm not at all surprised that bigcos make bug reports or feature requests from time to time. This one seems like an issue that was also important to Ubuntu, so a good contribution from them? Or no? And it seems like the person was pretty polite about the request? Admittedly they could have been more specific, but that seems like a generic newb developer issue than a FAANG-specific problem.
  - wbond 6y ago
    I don’t think it is a newb question, they just wanted me to revamp how I release my project and couldn’t be bothered to contribute to the goal.
  - wbond 6y ago
    One thing I would note is that typically engineers from bigger companies tend to email more than leaving public issues on GitHub. Especially in the security space, lots of users tend to seem to not want a public record of their conversation.