This is an important point: not only the Acme community doesn't want to implement features, they also don't want to share the way things can be automated. This

This is an important point: not only the Acme community doesn't want to implement features, they also don't want to share the way things can be automated. This article is a good example: the author spends 90% of the time explaining why things shouldn't be done, instead of explaining how exactly he does it. This is not a great way to create a community.