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Being an open-source maintainer is a mostly thankless job. You put in years of work, and in return you will get endless complaints from random users and drive-b
by peppermint_gum 3y ago
Being an open-source maintainer is a mostly thankless job. You put in years of work, and in return you will get endless complaints from random users and drive-by contributors who feel entitled to your time.
I mean, just look at the other thread.[1] The HN mob piles on a kernel developer because of a blogpost where a drive-by contributor severely misrepresents (and misquotes) an interaction he had with him more than a year ago.
When people make comments like "if you treat people like crap, they won't stick around," they're only referring to new or even potential contributors. The maintainers are expected to endure anything that is thrown at them. It's their job, they have to be welcoming. The (non-paying) customer is always right!
[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37671991 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37671991
- nolist_policy 3y agoTo quote some accusations against the maintainer from that thread: > And some folks wonder why "nerds" and "geeks" are seen as socially inapt... > If I do kernel sec patches like this, I'll just get a cool URL, a funny image, and publish it as an 0day. That way, I'll get credit AND a cve. > 100% this. It has all the symptoms of an old boy's club, combined with smugness of socially inept nerds. It would have cost the maintainer basically nothing to handle this better, but the natural inclination of these types of people in their fiefdoms would never allow it. > If they leave the project, the project won't be losing a good person.
- r053bud 3y agoAll these people are 100% welcome to use closed-source commercial operating systems if they would like