Comment by dangerface
5 years ago
If some one opens the door for you that was nice of them, they did your work for you, they have no ongoing obligation to maintain the door in an open state.
If some one give you their code that was nice of them, they wrote your code for you, they have no ongoing obligation to maintain your code.
by simply giving you their code they have already provided you with value, a head start for nothing in return, they have opened the door for you, the rest is up to you.
We’re starting to stretch the metaphor too far, but by opening the door you’ve signaled to me that I can walk through it safely. Closing it abruptly can in some cases be even worse than the alternative, since I could have possibly opened the door myself (written it myself and not invested time in this particular project) or gone through a another door that was also being held open (used another open source project).
> by opening the door you’ve signaled to me that I can walk through it safely.
It was safe for me, is it safe for them? Thats not a judgment I can make on their behalf. A lot of people are complaining that the code is unsafe while the author thought it was safe enough for them. How many nines is safe, depends on the person.
You should consider these things before using some ones help, not after, looking at the comments here no one did that.
> It's not very hard to say, this is a project for my own technical interest, I don't intend to follow Rust norms about use of unsafe, and you shouldn't rely on it.
So this guy is happy to rely on code he hasn't even looked at and then gets upset when that code is unreliable. This is not a reasonable expectation.
He try's to make out like this was a professional product that you would expect professional support for, but this is just some code he found on github and couldn't even be bothered to look at.
If you took the code when it was available then you walked through the door when it was open, now the door is closed its your responsibility.
> A lot of people are complaining that the code is unsafe while the author thought it was safe enough for them. How many nines is safe, depends on the person.
There's a very precise definition of this, it's not a matter of opinion. The code exposed a public API that was not marked "unsafe" that allowed you to construct (definitely intentionally, perhaps unintentionally) two mutable references to the same object.
> So this guy is happy to rely on code he hasn't even looked at and then gets upset when that code is unreliable. This is not a reasonable expectation.
This is a hostile misinterpretation of what actually happened. The bug reporter actually looked at the code, determined it was unsafe, and reported a bug. That's what everyone wants an OSS user to do.
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You walked through the door safely. Then you come back day after day and say "Where is my doorman! He opened the door once, that is an implied social contract to open the door every day!"
agreed that it is being stretched. perhaps a better metaphor would be not just opening the door, but building it.