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"If you see a Homebrew maintainer walking down the street in your direction, find the nearest wall and bury your face in it in shame and deference until they pa
by catlover76 3y ago
"If you see a Homebrew maintainer walking down the street in your direction, find the nearest wall and bury your face in it in shame and deference until they pass."
- stalfosknight 3y agoThis is exactly the kind of vibe they give off on their Github repo too. They're not the nicest people to interact with.
- pkulak 3y agoWell, they have to spend their time propping up an OS built by one of the richest companies in the world for free.
- josephg 3y agoThey have chosen to. It’s a big difference!
- pkulak 3y agoChoices can make you unhappy.
- sph 3y agoIt appears that Sisyphus is unhappy, unless you are telling me they are free to move on, and being a Homebrew maintainer is not an eternal punishment?
- Klonoar 3y agoI mean, I’m sympathetic to OSS being hell but you don’t get this vibe from MacPorts. The tone with which they write that stuff actually makes me not use it - not because it’s not good (it generally is), I just get annoyed reading it.
- toyg 3y agoThat's probably because MacPorts was built by (and for) actual Apple employees, whereas Homebrew was built by someone unrelated who even had to start his own company because FAANGs wouldn't hire him.
- catlover76 3y ago> had to start his own company because FAANGs wouldn't hire him. LOL dude... "FAANG" is not the only place to work
- toyg 3y agoBut they are definitely at the top end of the compensation and job-security scale, which someone responsible for such a popular piece of infrastructure surely deserves.
- catlover76 3y agoI think it's certainly a point in a person's favor, but I would disagree that anyone necessarily "deserves" to have a job like that.
- saagarjha 3y agoHe worked at Apple for a year or so.
- tacker2000 3y agoSo what? Its their choice. You dont have to behave like that just because your program is so popular.
- dncornholio 3y agoDo people care about this? All I see is, they protect themself from each and every script kiddy that runs to reddit or github when something doesn't work because of their own config issues.