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I wonder if it is demoralising. Imagine any project you worked on for multiple years - and someone suggests it could be rewritten (and better) in a long weeken

I wonder if it is demoralising. Imagine any project you worked on for multiple years - and someone suggests it could be rewritten (and better) in a long weekend. How would you feel and respond? I might laugh a bit, but I probably wouldn't spend much time on it. The part of FOSS I think would be demoralising for me would be dealing with all the people who assume that the maintainer of a piece of software is a customer service operative who exists solely to reply to them in a timely fashion.

kriro 4y ago
My response would be...don't just talk about it, do it. Looking forward to your follow up post "I rewrote Curl". If it's better, we'll just use your version going forward. Then maybe for kicks and giggles once a year: "Hi, just a quick followup...did you ever get around to rewriting Curl? Cause I know you could." The best thing is to just ignore this completely though and focus on the stuff that you are doing.