Comment by Tadpole9181
10 days ago
Or we can stop being toxic to open source maintainers and acting like we own them or they owe us anything.
A commit message on a random branch is not an obligation. Not telling random internet users what side projects they're working on is not a blunder. It quite frankly doesn't matter what you think looks official, it doesn't give you the right to treat people like this.
It's so embarrassing to be a programmer some times, so many of my peers behaving like spoiled rotten brats.
> Or we can stop being toxic to open source maintainers and acting like we own them or they owe us anything.
The majority of the community feels this way which says something. The author's reaction is to publicly display being upset and dismissive of the communities reaction. That is just making it worse.
When you work on a project this big, more care is needed. The commit was an innocent mistake. The blunder is blowing off the communities response as overblown which it would be had the commit been tagged experimental. But it wasn't. And the author did themselves no favor blowing it off.
If the author was smart, their reply would simply have been:
Hello, To clarify, this is an experimental branch only. There are no plans to port, only experiment. I will tag the repo as such to ensure people understand its intention and avoid future misunderstandings.
Nothing difficult to understand here.
> The majority of the community feels this way which says something.
Yes, it says that those people are spoiled rotten brats and the community needs to start calling it out to improve itself.
They aren't contributors. They aren't employees. They aren't paying customers. Bun is not a web standard. They benefit from a free product that they chose to opt into over the standard ecosystem.
And for some reason they feel they have a right to know every decision and experiment everyone who does work on that project is making apriori. And, God forbid, if somebody even so much as starts working on something in an off branch that doesn't affect them in any way without getting their approval, they're going throw an absolute hissy fit.
And to criticize the person actually doing their job for feeling slighted that hundreds of people have verbally accosted them over it, because one feels they don't recognize an "implied responsibility" to those folk, is silly.
I'll also push back, though. The majority of the community doesn't seem to be doing anything.