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Christian Brauner 🦊🐺
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Edited 7 months ago
Having read https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2024/03/30/a-microcosm-of-the-interactions-in-open-source-projects/ yesterday I remembered something I wanted to ask a while ago.
If you're an upstream maintainer have you ever received off-list rants/angry mails from sock puppets because they didn't get their favorite toy for feature? I did.
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@brauner Were they at least upset that you were rejecting code they had written, rather than angry because you didn't also implement it for them?
The case I most often think back upon was back around... 2008... Yeah, that person was angry with me.
There's so much to say here. But the thought that's new to me, with this episode, is that choosing new maintainers is a more solemn task than I'd previously thought. I *really* hope that Lasse does not feel bad: he did the right thing here! He found someone willing to help who had shown competence in the past. If I were wanting to hand over maintainership of (let's not name a project), what would be the right steps? Insist on having met the person in real life? Would that prove anything, really? Have our pgp keys in the same web of trust?
The case I most often think back upon was back around... 2008... Yeah, that person was angry with me.
There's so much to say here. But the thought that's new to me, with this episode, is that choosing new maintainers is a more solemn task than I'd previously thought. I *really* hope that Lasse does not feel bad: he did the right thing here! He found someone willing to help who had shown competence in the past. If I were wanting to hand over maintainership of (let's not name a project), what would be the right steps? Insist on having met the person in real life? Would that prove anything, really? Have our pgp keys in the same web of trust?
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@brauner I’ve had people pleased I helped them get time to get a better job done, they can’t push back against their manager but they can happily blame me.
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