Facebook for social/political reasons Google, for SE reasons. I’ve never had as many issues with F/OSS projects than I’ve had with Google’s open source projec

Facebook for social/political reasons Google, for SE reasons. I’ve never had as many issues with F/OSS projects than I’ve had with Google’s open source projects. Whenever I need a bug fixed I tell my girlfriend “I’m about to be treated like I’m dumb in a bug tracker.” It’s usually basic functionality that was documented years ago but never actually functioned properly. The fix is usually done behind closed doors by a Google employee in 1-n months and tossed back over the wall. Very little space for a non-Googler to contribute and employee maintainers seem to leave often. The documentation structure used across projects is non-sensical as well. No next/prev, just “related” links. They actually brag about the doc process in their software engineering book.