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Thank you to the author for writing this. Entitlement in open source is a massive problem, I have experienced it first-hand many times. The problem is that it

by dom96 4y ago

Thank you to the author for writing this. Entitlement in open source is a massive problem, I have experienced it first-hand many times. The problem is that it discourages contributions not only from the existing maintainers but also from people who may volunteer to fix issues in the future. Would you be willing to contribute if most of the issues are just asking for things (often rudely) and not even saying thanks when an issue is resolved? Unfortunately I have seen far worse examples than the one linked in the article[1]. I would encourage people to not only think twice before acting this way but to also call out people that are acting entitled in open source to discourage such actions. 1 - https://github.com/dom96/httpbeast/pull/35#issuecomment-721877680 https://github.com/dom96/httpbeast/pull/35#issuecomment-7218...

allarm 4y ago
I’m not sure what you mean by this example. From what I see, somebody submitted a bug fix that hadn’t been approved/merged by you for 6 months. Then some quite rude conversation happened “Don’t act as my free time is owned by you”. I mean both sides look quite ugly in this particular case to be honest.
- dom96 4y ago
  > From what I see, somebody submitted a bug fix that hadn’t been approved/merged by you for 6 months. From my perspective the PR was reviewed and was stuck on a test case being created. The author of the PR even stated "I'll try to make a simple test case." so as far as I'm concerned the ball was in their court. But you know, reviewing PRs takes time too. Acting entitled about a review taking a long time shouldn't be done either.
  - allarm 4y ago
    > But you know, reviewing PRs takes time too. I agree. I’m just saying you were rude too.
    - abnry 4y ago
      He was rude, but he didn't initiate it. Frankly, he openly communicated his priorities (other things are on the list) and then got snark. So he responded in kind. Very little to blame the maintainer here.
jacobtomlinson 4y ago
OP here, glad you enjoyed this post. Sorry that you’ve also experienced the bad side of things.

by dom96 4y ago

allarm 4y ago

I’m not sure what you mean by this example. From what I see, somebody submitted a bug fix that hadn’t been approved/merged by you for 6 months. Then some quite rude conversation happened “Don’t act as my free time is owned by you”. I mean both sides look quite ugly in this particular case to be honest.

dom96 4y ago
> From what I see, somebody submitted a bug fix that hadn’t been approved/merged by you for 6 months. From my perspective the PR was reviewed and was stuck on a test case being created. The author of the PR even stated "I'll try to make a simple test case." so as far as I'm concerned the ball was in their court. But you know, reviewing PRs takes time too. Acting entitled about a review taking a long time shouldn't be done either.
- allarm 4y ago
  > But you know, reviewing PRs takes time too. I agree. I’m just saying you were rude too.
  - abnry 4y ago
    He was rude, but he didn't initiate it. Frankly, he openly communicated his priorities (other things are on the list) and then got snark. So he responded in kind. Very little to blame the maintainer here.

jacobtomlinson 4y ago

OP here, glad you enjoyed this post. Sorry that you’ve also experienced the bad side of things.