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Maybe but he was going to get the pile-on no matter what he actually said so long as he stood firm on his decision so I'm not sure that's relevant. Yes he was a
by Spivak 2y ago
Maybe but he was going to get the pile-on no matter what he actually said so long as he stood firm on his decision so I'm not sure that's relevant. Yes he was a jerk in the Github issue, not defending that, but people didn't pile on because he was rude, they piled-on because of the actual change.
The post wasn't "hey look at this rude asshole" but "rogue Debian maintainer $makes_change." I would bet that most people aware of the story never even clicked through to the GH issue to see the tea.
- timw4mail 2y agoIt was really both. The rudeness certainly escalated the issue.
- syoc 2y agoHow is this a debian maintainer going rogue? Maintainers making changes to default package build flags is quite normal and should be expected. These changes were even requested in the public bug tracker.
- apple4ever 2y agoWhile there may have been an initial pile on, it could've abated pretty quickly if he was nicer and was willing to discuss it. Most of the pile on was exacerbated by his attitude.