Comment by franktankbank
3 days ago
Everybody is dunking on this guy like hes some dopey protagonist in a movie, but you guys watched the movie. I think the interaction is pretty damn interesting. At least I see this interaction is "better" than the similar bug reports that have been discussed here (but I can't put my finger on why). If someone wants to contribute to ocaml I think they should read this issue to get a sense of how they work. Excellent communication from them and anyone could learn something about software professionalism. So I have to give kudos to the AI megaman for sparking the discussion and thought.
One thing I never really liked about professional software development is the way it can stall at big movements because we reject large PRs. Some stuff just won't happen if you have a simple heuristical position on this (IMO obviously).
> but I can't put my finger on why
For me it's the contrast between the absolute tone-deaf messages of PR author and the patience, maturity and guidance in maintainers' messages.
It's not that they won't do big changes. They clearly and politely said big changes should go through a design conversation with the maintainers first. This is extremely reasonable even if we assume maintaining code is free (it very much is not free!). It's amazing to be how nice they were AND this isn't the first slop PR he submitted to them!