Comment by rumanator
5 years ago
> Ignoring security conventions, and then adopting a "take my ball and go home attitude"
That statement is quite wrong. It's not a "take my ball and go home" attitude. You are not the boss of a FLOSS maintainer not are entitled to order anyone around to do your bidding. At best you're addressing a person and asking them to do you a favour. If the maintainer doesn't feel he should be bossed around by you then he has been generous enough to let you pick up where he left off and actually put in the legwork you are expecting others to do.
And in return these haters prefer to just bitch around and criticise others for not following their orders.
This is a weirdly hostile and unreasonable take. The maintainer was rejecting patches and ignoring bugs after advertising that patches were accepted and bug reports were desired. That at the very least makes the maintainer a liar. Additionally, the framework was advertised for general use that it was not suitable for given the soundness issues. Since when did lying to people, wasting their time, and being obstructive about their good-faith attempts to improve the project in the way the maintainer had already requested become admirable?