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I’m baffled by this. What business have projects mandating the tool I use for my contributions? I’m responsible of the quality of what I send and should be the

I’m baffled by this. What business have projects mandating the tool I use for my contributions? I’m responsible of the quality of what I send and should be the sole arbiter of if I want to clean generated code or not. This person is basically calling all their potential contributors too stupid to reasonably use some class of tools. That’s downright insulting. I have lost all the good will I had for Servo.

nasso_dev 2y ago
While I agree with your point about being responsible for the quality of the code you send, please remember that... > This post is my personal opinion, not necessarily representative of Servo or my colleagues at Igalia. ...so I don't believe it's fair to say that you lost all the good will you had for Servo based on just this article.
doctorpangloss 2y ago
Aren’t you playing into the very drama that you are criticizing? Is it disappointing that drama is an important reason people contribute to Servo?
blibble 2y ago
> What business have projects mandating the tool I use for my contributions? it's their project and they're entitled to set whatever rules they want > I’m responsible of the quality of what I send if you read the article this is is their primary concern > I have lost all the good will I had for Servo. I bet they're devastated
- StopDisinfo910 2y ago
  > it's their project and they're entitled to set whatever rules they want This is not the point. Projects are free to ban vim users if they want and I’m free to say it’s utterly baffling and should be none of their business. Rules don’t magically become acceptable because the people who put them in place were allowed to do so. It reminds me of the opposition to static analysis I used to see sometimes a decade ago because people would be too dumb to sort out the real cases from the false positive. I’m always impressed by how change averse the field is. > if you read the article this is is their primary concern That’s my whole point. They are basically implying that I’m too stupid to use some tools to produce quality code and they being the clever ones they are should shield us poor fools from ourselves. That’s the insulting part. At least the copyright infringement angle makes sense.

nasso_dev 2y ago

While I agree with your point about being responsible for the quality of the code you send, please remember that... > This post is my personal opinion, not necessarily representative of Servo or my colleagues at Igalia. ...so I don't believe it's fair to say that you lost all the good will you had for Servo based on just this article.

doctorpangloss 2y ago

Aren’t you playing into the very drama that you are criticizing? Is it disappointing that drama is an important reason people contribute to Servo?

blibble 2y ago

> What business have projects mandating the tool I use for my contributions? it's their project and they're entitled to set whatever rules they want > I’m responsible of the quality of what I send if you read the article this is is their primary concern > I have lost all the good will I had for Servo. I bet they're devastated

StopDisinfo910 2y ago
> it's their project and they're entitled to set whatever rules they want This is not the point. Projects are free to ban vim users if they want and I’m free to say it’s utterly baffling and should be none of their business. Rules don’t magically become acceptable because the people who put them in place were allowed to do so. It reminds me of the opposition to static analysis I used to see sometimes a decade ago because people would be too dumb to sort out the real cases from the false positive. I’m always impressed by how change averse the field is. > if you read the article this is is their primary concern That’s my whole point. They are basically implying that I’m too stupid to use some tools to produce quality code and they being the clever ones they are should shield us poor fools from ourselves. That’s the insulting part. At least the copyright infringement angle makes sense.