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Weird that they wouldn't jump on that. Sorry to hear about it. Sometimes authors end up over-identifying with their software or processes, so to speak. Or regu
by themodelplumber 5y ago
Weird that they wouldn't jump on that. Sorry to hear about it.
Sometimes authors end up over-identifying with their software or processes, so to speak. Or regular bug reports hit harder for them on a given day.
I've never had that kind of thing happen myself, but years ago I participated in a FOSS project that was similar with feature patches. It was amazing to see the patches that came in, that didn't meet the maintainer standard, that would have been awesome (graphics software). The only people who got patches submitted were the ones who hung around, stayed active in the community, and maintained a long narrative about the changes the maintainer wanted to see. It was a really high bar.
But that's just one example...I had really good results lately with projects like Nim generously taking up and diving into bug reports from complete noobs like me.
- mwattsun 5y agoI have sympathy for open source authors who are often under paid and unappreciated, as has been in the news recently. Then you have big blowups like Log4j and actix-web. For the life of me, I don't understand how someone could dump on a programmer when they are getting the software for free. The whole idea is that if you don't like something, fix it yourself.