It is, to find and report a bug is time contributed to make the software better. This maintainer is an asshat and probably has never had the luxury of knowing how expensive and time consuming QA really is.
the guy is super helpful with issues i’ve had, or, issues that other ordinary users have had. but a bunch of companies are leeching off the stack and they really don’t actually contribute. they try to implement stuff, which break stuff, and then innocently post help requests.
they build a commercial product on top of a free stack. what developer wouldn’t be pissed
Sure, but that’s the sort of things that is hashed out by lawyers in a private meeting room. Not in the GitHub’s public issue tracker. A simple “Report doesn’t meet criteria” would’ve sufficed. The rant is out of place and it makes him seem hostile.
There are pro-bono FOSS lawyers. There are foundations that help with these things. There are lots of free legal resources made available. If it hurts him so much, then he should just archive and make the repo private, then re-release under a private license, or maybe step back from maintaining a public repo. No piece of software is worth mental health and peace of mind. Nobody is forcing him to participate. I mean, fuck private companies that suck the life out of open source projects. But suffering abuse is never an excuse to dish out abuse. And when it comes to the public sphere, it is a rant in the end. Composure is important in the eye of the public. No one will want to be sympathetic with someone who lashes out in public. It is only hurting him, not the person who received the reply.
i’m actually posting this cause he is actually going to stop maintaining, exactly because of the reasons you listed. it’s sad cause he is a pretty chill dude
No, I I’m responding to you characterizing this as a poor hobbyist developer who is tired and going to stop maintaining their hobby project, none of which appears to be the case.
This is a corpo flaming a corpo. This developer left Canonical to work here.
You really should’ve gotten permission from him to post this. You’re all over this thread basically laughing with emojis at his disgrace. It’s a couple of small developers doing home automation stuff. They don’t need this kind of diss. You should delete this post, and if you really want to say something about open source culture, maybe get permission and actually put effort into anonymizing the image.
i’m laughing at the reply. i don’t think it’s a disgrace. i think it’s a good example of what happens when bloodsucking corpos take it too far. they not only squeeze their employees but force people working on an open source project to work for them, for free as well.
Yeah, but OP is not exactly bringing useful context. Whatever the history might be. The public tracker is not the best place to air these kind of grievances.
It is, to find and report a bug is time contributed to make the software better. This maintainer is an asshat and probably has never had the luxury of knowing how expensive and time consuming QA really is.
:) maybe i should’ve given more history.
the guy is super helpful with issues i’ve had, or, issues that other ordinary users have had. but a bunch of companies are leeching off the stack and they really don’t actually contribute. they try to implement stuff, which break stuff, and then innocently post help requests. they build a commercial product on top of a free stack. what developer wouldn’t be pissed
Sure, but that’s the sort of things that is hashed out by lawyers in a private meeting room. Not in the GitHub’s public issue tracker. A simple “Report doesn’t meet criteria” would’ve sufficed. The rant is out of place and it makes him seem hostile.
What lawyers 😂 it’s a small repo of a pretty handy tool.
rant, i’m imagining, comes from a place of years of abuse the poor guy suffered
What lawyers?
Nymea is a commercial company too. This isn’t someone’s hobby project.
There are pro-bono FOSS lawyers. There are foundations that help with these things. There are lots of free legal resources made available. If it hurts him so much, then he should just archive and make the repo private, then re-release under a private license, or maybe step back from maintaining a public repo. No piece of software is worth mental health and peace of mind. Nobody is forcing him to participate. I mean, fuck private companies that suck the life out of open source projects. But suffering abuse is never an excuse to dish out abuse. And when it comes to the public sphere, it is a rant in the end. Composure is important in the eye of the public. No one will want to be sympathetic with someone who lashes out in public. It is only hurting him, not the person who received the reply.
i’m actually posting this cause he is actually going to stop maintaining, exactly because of the reasons you listed. it’s sad cause he is a pretty chill dude
Why would the Senior Software Engineer at nymea quit his paid position?
i don’t know why, why would you ask me that? your comments are increasingly hostile. i’m following a repo, i saw a comment, i find it funny.
sherlock here, jeez.
No, I I’m responding to you characterizing this as a poor hobbyist developer who is tired and going to stop maintaining their hobby project, none of which appears to be the case.
This is a corpo flaming a corpo. This developer left Canonical to work here.
You really should’ve gotten permission from him to post this. You’re all over this thread basically laughing with emojis at his disgrace. It’s a couple of small developers doing home automation stuff. They don’t need this kind of diss. You should delete this post, and if you really want to say something about open source culture, maybe get permission and actually put effort into anonymizing the image.
i’m laughing at the reply. i don’t think it’s a disgrace. i think it’s a good example of what happens when bloodsucking corpos take it too far. they not only squeeze their employees but force people working on an open source project to work for them, for free as well.
I agree, but this is basically shitposting.
I don’t know, this sounds like there’s some history between developers and the reporter. If not, then somebody indeed had enough.
Yeah, but OP is not exactly bringing useful context. Whatever the history might be. The public tracker is not the best place to air these kind of grievances.