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I'm glad I'm not the only one hating homebrew. It's become very anti-user in the past few years under the new maintainers. Even the original maintainer has said

I'm glad I'm not the only one hating homebrew. It's become very anti-user in the past few years under the new maintainers. Even the original maintainer has said publicly that he doesn't like the direction the new maintainers took homebrew. All the changes the current maintainers of homebrew have made have been in the direction of "make maintaining homebrew easier so we get less questions" without any thought to the user experience those changes cause.

Hackbraten 6y ago
> without any thought to the user experience those changes cause. Sorry you get that impression. As one of the maintainers, my impression is that each decision happens in good faith, and usually follows a controversial discussion, which puts user experience on par with maintainers’s well-being. Examples off the top of my head: [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/9172#issuecomment-729920575 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/9172#issuecomment-7299... [2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9177#issuecomment-729483358 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9177#issuecomment-72... [3]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9099#issuecomment-726195872 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9099#issuecomment-72... That’s not to say your feelings aren’t valid. I can see how some unpopular decisions may come across as rude, thoughtless or selfish. I’m aware that this is still a huge issue, and my feeling is that we still have a lot to learn in order to get better and more transparent at communicating. I’m thankful for feedback like yours (even though I strongly disagree with the part that I’ve quoted). You can be sure any such feedback has a real, positive impact on where we’re heading as a project.
- renaudg 6y ago
  It's comments like this one that cause these feelings : https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857#issuecomment-653403764 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857#issuecomment-65...

Hackbraten 6y ago

> without any thought to the user experience those changes cause. Sorry you get that impression. As one of the maintainers, my impression is that each decision happens in good faith, and usually follows a controversial discussion, which puts user experience on par with maintainers’s well-being. Examples off the top of my head: [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/9172#issuecomment-729920575 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/9172#issuecomment-7299... [2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9177#issuecomment-729483358 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9177#issuecomment-72... [3]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9099#issuecomment-726195872 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9099#issuecomment-72... That’s not to say your feelings aren’t valid. I can see how some unpopular decisions may come across as rude, thoughtless or selfish. I’m aware that this is still a huge issue, and my feeling is that we still have a lot to learn in order to get better and more transparent at communicating. I’m thankful for feedback like yours (even though I strongly disagree with the part that I’ve quoted). You can be sure any such feedback has a real, positive impact on where we’re heading as a project.

renaudg 6y ago
It's comments like this one that cause these feelings : https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857#issuecomment-653403764 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857#issuecomment-65...